women going through infertility often endure a real and emotional toll...
Recent published studies clearly show that making lifestyle changes can directly impact success rates in fertility treatment cycles, and a fertility coach can help you make beneficial changes that lead to improved health and well-being and increase the odds of conceiving.
Fertility coaching is often referred to as a 'mind-body' process, with a fertility coach looking at the whole person, relationships and surroundings in order to...
1. Lessen the negative impact fertility struggles has on you and your life:
With tools and techniques to change your mindset, a coach can provide you with coping skills and reduce the physical and psychological markers of chronic stress, anxiety and or low mood.
2. Enhance your body’s natural fertility:
Nutritional deficiencies, exercise, sleep, hormone imbalances and many more borderline health issues can acutely influence fertility, even if you are not experiencing any other serious health symptoms. A fertility coach can provide advice and practical goal setting help around optimizing lifestyle and nudging practical changes that may have a positive impact on your physical body and reproductive health, such as diet, sleep and toxins.
3. Provide your future baby with the best start:
Data from the emerging field of epigenetics shows that lifestyle choices even in the pre-conception period can set in motion genetic influences that will follow a baby into adulthood, such as likelihood of obesity, immune response and susceptibility to certain diseases.
The right fertility support in the preconception period and through fertility treatment has been shown to:
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Improve egg retrieval rates
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Impact egg quality
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Reduce miscarriage risk
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Shrink fibroids
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Improve sperm motility and count
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Reduce PCOS symptoms
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Reduce Endometriosis symptoms
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Managing anxiety, stress and depression
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Communication and difficult relationship conversations
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Strategies for key moments (before/after embryo transfer, two-week wait)
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Motivation and commitment to specific treatments
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Improving your health for fertility (nutrition, physical activity, environment)
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Setting up goals, action plans and more importantly mind set
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Following up and positive accountability to a successful pregnancy
✨ Additionally, a fertility coach can be a vital source of support during a time when many of your usual support circle may be at a loss for how to help you navigate the next steps.
✨ Sometimes, people just want an informed second opinion from someone who has time, expertise and insight. Sometimes decisions are not purely medical decisions, they are highly personal and require thinking through in the round: do we do another cycle? how will we manage the costs?
✨ It is difficult for friends and family to provide support in such a specialist area with lots of jargon, nuances and a great deal of emotional tension - and often doctors and fertility specialists do not provide lifestyle advice, partly because they are not specifically trained to do so, they are under time pressure and because the data around many specialist areas such as nutrition are conflicting and constantly evolving.
✨ In helping you to find answers to your questions, clarifying conflicting information and providing realistic and positive ways to move forward, a fertility coach can augment clinical care in a way that provides you with more energy and agency for the journey ahead.
Additionally, a fertility coach can be a real source of support during a time when many of your usual support circle may be at a loss for how to help you navigate the next steps.
Sometimes, people just want an informed second opinion from someone who has time, expertise and insight. Sometimes decisions are not purely medical decisions, they are highly personal and require thinking through in the round: do we do another cycle? how will we manage the costs?
It is hard for friends and family to provide support in such a specialist area with lots of jargon, nuances and a great deal of emotional tension - and often doctors and fertility specialists do not provide lifestyle advice, partly because they are not specifically trained to do so, they are under time pressure and because the data around many specialist areas such as nutrition are conflicting and constantly evolving.
In helping you to find answers to your questions, clarifying conflicting information and providing realistic and positive ways to move forward, a fertility coach can augment clinical care in a way that provides you with more energy and agency for the journey ahead.