The Fertility Podcast

This episode of The Fertility Podcast Bitesize is in partnership with Mira, and you’ll be hearing from its founder Sylvia Kang to explain why it’s important to understand your fertility hormones and how monitoring them is a great way to help you understand whether or not you are ovulating and what might be going on with your menstrual cycle. Mira describes itself as offering personalized cycle prediction by measuring an exact number of hormone concentrations in urine samples, which can tell women their full fertile window, pinpointing ovulation, revealing hormone imbalances, and pregnancy status.

What was Discussed: 

• How hormones are measured
• What you are looking for 
• What surges you are looking for in your LH and why
• Oestrogen levels explained
• When progesterone surges 
• When the FSH surge should happen and what happens if it is too high 
• When is your fertile window 
• How Mira works and what you can learn from the app 

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Welcome to the latest episode of The Fertility Podcast bite-size. We are in conversation with Dr.Theodorou,  Consultant Gynaecologist, and Specialist in Reproductive Medicine at The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health about Egg Freezing. If you want to understand more about whether this could be an option for you then this snippet will give you plenty to think about. 

What we discussed: 

• What is involved in initial tests and who might freeze their eggs and why
• What a treatment plan looks like and when in your cycle it would start 
• When is the best time to freeze your eggs? 
• Explanation of egg health and egg age
• Egg quality over the age of 40
• When it is good to freeze eggs early, eg. known family history of low egg reserve or issues such as endometriosis or operation on the ovaries that would impact the ovarian reserve. 
• What egg quality decline means 
• How egg freezing is empowering for a woman’s career and the options it gives for the future if they were to have treatment older 
• How companies are offering egg freezing benefits 
• How best to afford the treatment with finance packages available  - CRGH offers Secure

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Egg health is a topic Kate and I are always asked about and having spoken with Embryologist Lucy Lines, on the podcast before we knew she’d be perfect for sharing bitesize chunks of helpful information on the matter. Lucy’s career as an embryologist began with Monash IVF in Melbourne in 2001. Since then, she has worked in Sweden, the UK, Ireland, and Germany. Lucy is one of 143 experts answering more of your questions over at fertially.com and we've worked to make this bitesize chunk for you.  

What was discussed: 

• What is the relationship between fertility and egg quality? 
• Can you explain a bit about why and how egg quality declines over time?
• What foods can improve egg quality 
• Does poor egg quality cause Down syndrome or genetic diseases in the baby? 
• How many eggs do you lose per cycle?

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Welcome to the latest episode of The Fertility Podcast bite-size where we are in conversation with Dr. Waal Saab, Deputy Clinical Director at The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health about Sperm Health. It’s important to understand that infertility is a male and female issue and you will learn more about sperm health and what you can do to improve it. 

What we discussed: 

• How does sperm quality impact the ability to conceive? 
• How fertility issues are a fifty-fifty male-female issue - 40% of fertility issues are related to a female factor infertility 40% to male factor infertility and 20% are unexplained.
• The impact on miscarriages 
• Testing the sperm including Sperm DNA fragmentation test. 
• Recurrent IVF failures
• Lifestyle changes and how long sperm takes to develop 
• Issues with heat and sperm health
• Why a diet rich in antioxidants and some minerals should be considered. 
• The decline in sperm counts 
• Issues with Anabolic steroids and protein shakes 
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Kate - co-host of The Fertility Podcast where you can find yourfertilitynurse

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Welcome to another episode of The Fertility Podcast bitesize, with The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health (CRGH) in this snippet, we’re going to be hearing from Xavier Brunetti, Deputy Head of Embryology to explain more about how embryos are graded. All too often there are conversations online within Facebook groups or forums about what the different gradings mean and it can cause all sorts of stress and unease for patients. We are all so different and every clinic is different, so Dr. Google is not your friend when you are at this stage of your fertility treatment. So have a listen to Xavi explain more about what the embryologist is looking for and what happens in the lab. 

We discuss: 

• Day 1 - Day 3 and then Day 4 to Day 5 or 6
• Symmetry, fragmentation, can they see the nuclei
• How synchronized cell divisions are 
• How Blastocysts grow 
• What that means for the grading
• How the lab keeps in touch with you - the patient 
• How to manage patients' expectations of egg collection 

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Wishing you a Happy Easter or a Happy Passover - or just a Happy Bank Holiday. This episode is a bit of an interactive one, so you might want to listen back if you’re on the move as I have a few tasks, all of them good and useful I hope. 

Mainly to get in touch and leave a message if you’d like via The Fertility Podcast about the topics we’re discussing in our next series - so have a listen and Kate and I would love to hear from you. 

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Getting Pregnancy Ready

Infertility Support

Pregnancy Loss

Male Fertility

Alternative Routes to Parenthood 

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Welcome to the latest episode of The Fertility Podcast bite-size where we are in conversation with Dr Waal Saab, Deputy Clinical Director at The Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health.

What was discussed:

• How treatment is tailored depending on medical history
• Success rates and what they mean at different clinics
• How CRGH is open 24/7
• The multidisciplinary approach when it comes to medical care. W
• How all medical decisions depend on input from clinicians, embryologists, nurses.
• How a patient’s psychological status is well cared for with access to counselling and how partners are also supported
• How CRGH are well known to be a centre of referral where patients come, after recurrent failures eg. implantation failures or miscarriages

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If you’re a regular listener to The Fertility Podcast, you’ll probably be well aware that Kate, an independent fertility nurse consultant is our Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) expert and in this bitesize chunk she explains some of the core elements of getting your head around PCOS.

What's discussed:

• How do you know if you have PCOS
• How is it diagnosed? 
• Can a woman with PCOS conceive? 
• How you ovulate when you have PCOS 
• What you should eat with PCOS?

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In this episode of The Fertility Podcast Bitesize we'll be hearing from Emma Grønbæk who is a Nurse and Content Marketing Coordinator at Cryos International supplies frozen donor sperm and eggs to more than 100 countries worldwide. Cryos has the world’s largest selection of Non-ID Release and ID Release donors and boast the highest number of registered pregnancies in the world.

Emma offers advice and guidance on how to have conversations which can cause lots of worry, in terms of how to talk about the donor and when is the best time to have the conversation. Cryos have a dedicated section on their website talking about timings along with research from Susan Golumbok. There are also personal stories and other resources such as books you can read to your children. Titles such as 'Happy Together' and The Pea that was Me' are really popular.

Cyros also has a whole FAQ section available.

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