Fertility co.

Meet Jess. She's a post-partum doula from Melbourne, providing much-needed support for new mums. She’s a mum of one but has been struggling to conceive baby #2 for over 2 years. Despite her struggles to conceive, she loves working with new mums and their babies and says this gives her hope! She’s passionate about holistic health and supporting her body to optimise her natural fertility and she shares about how she and her partner explored all possible conservative options before seeking assistance. 


Full show notes, with all links and resources can be found HERE:

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If you’re keen to be a guest on the podcast and share your fertility journey in your own words, then please contact me! These episodes can’t happen without you! Click here to apply!

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FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

Ever heard the advice that low AMH levels mean you'll never get pregnant naturally?

Well, I have some thoughts... (drumroll please)

Quality over quantity. Always. 

And why do I believe this, even though others may have a different opinion or take on things? That AMH levels are everything when it comes to your fertility?

It's because while AMH levels are a pretty reliable indicator of your ovarian reserve (how many eggs remaining in your ovaries with "reproductive potential")… AMH levels give no insight into the quality of those remaining eggs.

Sure, the more eggs we have the better, because this gives us an indication of time frames for conceiving and when we might enter perimenopause, but when you’re trying to conceive, we want as many good quality eggs as possible.

Here’s What We’re Talking About:

• What AMH levels actually mean (and how accurate are they?)
• Ovarian reserve and AMH testing
• When to test your AMH levels 
• Why your levels might be low
• Can you increase AMH levels? What to do if you’ve been told your AMH levels are low

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

Ok, so I know this is a BIG call, but there is one thing I ALWAYS stand by when it comes to prenatal supplements.

It COMPLETELY changed the way I thought about pre-conception care and early pregnancy. And I think it will for you too.

One size doesn't fit all.

Sounds obvious, right?

In this episode of the podcast I’m sharing what most people get wrong about prenatal supplements. We’ll talk about whether they are always necessary, when to take them and whether they’ll actually help you to conceive. And most of all, we’ll talk about why a supplement will never be a substitute for a healthy, nourishing diet.


Here’s What We’re Talking About:

• Are prenatal supplements necessary? Why you shouldn’t rely on them alone to fill all of your nutritional requirements during preconception and pregnancy.
• Why nutrition should always be prioritised over supplementation
• Essential nutrients for preconception and pregnancy, with a focus on folic acid vs folate and iodine
• Can prenatal supplements help you to conceive?
• When to start taking prenatal supplements (and when to stop)
• Building your preconception plate

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

You’ve finally figured out fertile mucus.

You finally feel like you can identify your fertile window.

You finally have the timing right.

But you’re still not getting pregnant.

Once you’ve figured out the basics of charting and understanding your cycle, the next step is to look back at your completed chart and figure out if your cycle was actually fertile.

And without a fertile cycle, well, it's going to be tricky getting pregnant.

There are THREE key reasons why your cycle may not be fertile. But there are also three EASY ways to fix this too.

In this podcast episode, I'm sharing three reasons why your cycle isn't fertile (and what actually makes a cycle "fertile") so that you won't fall into these traps too and know exactly what to look out for if you're thinking this could be your problem.

Here’s What We’re Talking About:

• Reason 1: Your luteal phase is too short – Luteal phase defects and why the length of your luteal phase matters
• Reason 2: You’re not ovulating consistently - Stress-pattern cycles, why ovulation testing doesn’t work for irregular cycles, and the link between a long follicular phase and oestrogen dominance.
• Reason 3: You’re only thinking about fertility as making babies and not as a state of health, and why hormones are the very first point of disruption when the body is under some form of stress.

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

Meet Anna - She’s a mum of 2 (and now probably 3 as this episode drops) from Iowa and she’s my VERY FIRST guest on the Fertility Files! 

Tune in as she shares her experiences with pregnancy, birth control, loss and motherhood and why she would do it all over again!

 WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY?
If you’re keen to be a guest on the podcast and share your fertility journey in your own words, then please contact me! These episodes can’t happen without you!

Click here to apply!

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

What if I told you that there are 3 simple things you can do to help confirm ovulation day?

And what if I told you that you don’t even have to do all of them every day?

Would you want to know what they were?

I thought so… which is EXACTLY why I am giving them to you in this week’s podcast episode.

Here’s what we’re talking about:

• Menstruation – If your period doesn’t arrive 10-17 days after ovulation day, either you’re pregnant, or ovulation hasn’t happened yet.
• Cervical Mucus - As ovulation approaches, cervical mucus becomes thinner, wetter and clearer, and will become dry and sticky the day after ovulation for the rest of the cycle.
• BBT - You have observed a clear upward shift in BBT that aligns with a shift in mucus patterns. 

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

• Instead of describing yourself as infertile or experiencing infertility, describe yourself as experiencing “sub-fertility”.
• Be realistic about your timelines. Instead of expecting to get pregnant first try, or panicking when it doesn’t happen straight away, understand that on average it takes a healthy couple 6-12 months to get pregnant. 
• Instead of feeling lost, confused and defeated, take it as a sign that while your fertility may not be optimal right now, there are simple changes you CAN make to optimise ovulation and boost your chances of conceiving naturally.
• Instead of panicking at the prospect of IVF, get informed about your fertile window and ovulation and make sure you have the timing right first! Work through all your conservative options before considering assistance. 

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

Have you ever found yourself saying these things?

I can’t see egg-white mucus.

I can’t see any mucus.

I just don’t have enough mucus to actually track my cycle this way.

I get it. I promise. 

So many women (myself included when I was getting started) just can’t get their head around the fact that a TINY sensation is enough to tell them when they’re fertile!

And these roadblocks?

Are VERY real when it comes to identifying ovulation day so that you are confident enough to stop relying on hormonal contraception for birth control or an app or an ovulation testing kit to give you the answers that are ultimately right in front of you.

But you KNOW when you overcome them, magic can happen. 

 
Magic like:

✔️That pill packet going in the bin – and staying in the bin this time!

✔️The baby-making process being fun again because it’s not all calculations and peeing on sticks.

✔️And of course, finally getting that Big Fat Positive.

In my very first podcast episode in over a year (sorry about that) I am dropping my best strategies to help YOU overcome these roadblocks and achieve this magic. 

 Here’s What We’re Talking About:

• Why all the fuss about egg-white mucus (and what does it actually tell us?)
• Can you still conceive without egg-white mucus?
• Why the sensation of your mucus is more important than what it looks like
• Why you should ONLY chart what you actually see and feel on a given day (not what you THINK you should)
• 3 quick-fix steps if you’re struggling to see anything at all

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Full show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources can be found HERE:

DM Rachel on Instagram:

@fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

More often than not when we think about fertility, we immediately start thinking about women. Yes, we are the ones who have menstrual cycles and get pregnant and grow babies, but if it wasn’t for male sperm pregnancy would never be possible. And if a couple is struggling to conceive, it’s about an even 50-50 split about whether it is a male or female cause.

In this episode, we’re talking about what makes up an individual sperm cell; how the male reproductive system works to maximise chances of fertilising a female egg and we’re also talking about sperm count – how this is actually measured, how it’s changed over the past 100 years and some advice for couples who are trying to conceive with potentially low sperm counts.

Here’s What We’re Talking About:

• Everything you need to know about sperm and male fertility
• How the male reproductive system works to maximise chances of fertilising a female egg
• The three main components of sperm count (and how it has changed in 100 years)
• How to maximise sperm quality
• Some advice for couples who are trying to conceive with potentially low sperm counts.

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Read the show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources HERE

DM Rachel on Instagram:
  @fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.

We all know that ovulation occurs about halfway through your menstrual cycle. Definitely not always on day 14 as we have been led to believe, but somewhere around the middle. Right?

But what if your cycle is 40 days long? Or 50 or 60?

Well, if your cycle is irregular or on the longer side, there’s a good chance your body has attempted to ovulate once or twice before it actually released an egg. And sometimes, it’s just all too hard and it gives up and decides to try again next month.

This is called anovulation, and it happens more commonly than you might think.

And that’s exactly what we’re talking about in this episode – what happens when ovulation doesn’t happen as planned. 

Here’s What We’re Talking About:

•  What is anovulation?
• How is your cycle (and your chart) affected?
• Why am I still bleeding?
• Causes of anovulation
• How do we know if ovulation has actually occurred?
• When should you seek further advice?
• Looking for patterns

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Read the show notes, including a transcript of this episode with all links and resources HERE

DM Rachel on Instagram:
  @fertilityco

Try Hustl - the online training app with Pilates, barre, strength, yoga, HIIT, meditation, and pregnancy/postpartum programs, all on-demand so you can train anywhere, anytime.

With 900+ classes, a weekly workout schedule delivered to your inbox every Monday, a full recipe library, and the most supportive community, Hustl makes staying consistent actually feel doable.

🔗 Use code HUSTLRACHEL to save $15

Support the show

Read the accompanying blog post HERE 

Connect with Rachel on Instagram @fertilityco

Whenever you're ready, here's a few ways I can help you!

FREE MINI-COURSE: Find Your Fertile Window

Maximise your chances of pregnancy with absolute and unshakeable confidence that you've got your timing perfectly right.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER: The Collective

Need someone to hold your hand and keep you sane during your two-week wait? Sick of your ovulation obsession? Tired of testing "just in case"? 

Of course you are! You’re already cycle-savvy and you know that timing is everything. So let’s spend these next two weeks together and switch your focus to expert guidance, daily distractions, and personalised podcast picks. Consider this your fast-track to fertility confidence … delivered straight to your inbox!

SIGNATURE COURSE: Fertility School

The proven, step-by-step method to track your cycle in just 5 minutes a day — So you’ll finally know the precise days to try for a baby.