Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Food is one of the most powerful tools we have to transform our health and our fertility. Food is not just calories or even just nutrition, it is actual information that flags certain genes for expression – so it literally changes the ways our DNA is expressed –…

  Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Cleanses are popular and sound like something we should probably do, especially for fertility… but before you go rushing into the next trendy juice fast or buying a package of shakes, listen up. There are important things to know about detoxing and how the liver works, in…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Whether you’re trying to get pregnant naturally or with IVF or IUI, supporting implantation is important, and often overlooked. Let’s say a healthy egg meets a healthy sperm and manages to become a healthy little embryo, it travels down the fallopian tube, and then about 6-8 days after…

  Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel This is a question I get asked a lot. Because progesterone is so crucial for both getting and staying pregnant (and is linked to miscarriages), people are often concerned about their progesterone levels. First, let’s talk about signs of low progesterone. And then we’ll talk about what…

  Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel What is Diminished Ovarian Reserve? Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) is a decrease in the number and quality of the remaining eggs in the ovaries, or a poor response to ovarian stimulation. It’s usually measured by AMH and FSH levels, and antral follicle count via ultrasound. Often fertility…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Can we improve egg quality? One of the most commonly asked questions I get is what we can do to improve the quality of our eggs. We know that a woman is born with all of the eggs she will ever have. And we know that egg health…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel What is unexplained infertility? Unexplained infertility is one of the more frustrating diagnoses for people to hear, and one of the most common I see in my clinic. Unexplained infertility is what they label you with if all your labs and bloodwork check out as “normal”, and they…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Is IVF success guaranteed? A lot of people are under the impression that IVF is a shortcut and guarantee for pregnancy. They think ~ I’ll do IVF, they’ll harvest a bunch of eggs and sperm, create a bunch of embryos, genetically test them, and then transfer a grade…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel How (and why) to improve male fertility? There’s so much info out there for women and their fertility, but what about the men? What can your man do for his fertility? Men are often neglected when it comes to fertility care, but they are contributing half the DNA…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel Getting pregnant after 35 or 40 If you’re 35 or older and have been given the idea that your fertility has pretty much fallen off a cliff because of your age, then this is for you. We’re going to look at what the actual data and research says…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel How to reduce chances of miscarriage Have you recently suffered from one or multiple miscarriages? If so, I’m so sorry for your loss. Miscarriages are very common, but I know this doesn’t make them any easier. They can be one of the hardest, most devastating things to go…

Subscribe to the Becoming Mama YouTube Channel What is Diminished Ovarian Reserve? Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) is a decrease in the number and quality of the remaining eggs in the ovaries, or a poor response to ovarian stimulation. It’s usually measured by AMH and FSH levels, and antral follicle count via ultrasound. Often fertility doctors…