Fertility Blog

This article is the perfect one to start with, as it emphasizes one of the basic pscyhological principles in fertility treatment – mutual trust and cooperation with your treating specialist. When you ask questions and understand better your options, you feel more empowered to make the decisions that are right for you.

Here we address the emotional impact infertility can have on both partners. The article will offer you strategies to reduce these negative feelings and to focus on mutual support and understanding.

This article highlights the emotional and physical strain of fertility treatment and discusses the ways to keep the overall life quality and balance the energy.

Fear can give energy. In this article you will find thoughts on how your fear of not succeding can become your ally.

Here we talk about the importance of hope in fertility treatment as it gives you strength and clarity when the path seems uncertain. This article might help you find your tools to keep hope and stay focused on your dream.

Here you can read about the negative self-perceptions (like self-blame or doubt) which might arise while you are going through fertility treatment. This article might show you how to reframe destructive thoughts and alleviate emotional burdens.

Who holds the responsibility for the outcome? Is there a definite answer? Read this piece to help yourself accept the unpredictability of fertility process and focus on aspects you can manage

Choosing the right clinic is one of the key steps on fertility journey. This article highlights the value of finding a clinic that offers all the options and support you may need along the way. Take some time to read and think over your choices.

If you feel uncertain about the next step or feel stuck on your way, this article might provide advice on how to navigate these feelings, underlining the importance of continuing with life’s plans and accepting the situation as it is now.

Feeling unsure about egg donation? This article introduces a practical strategy designed to help you navigate this important decision with less stress. Have a look to find some practical advice for yourself as well as to find a bit of relief.

This article explores how anger and fear might arise when fertility treatment doesn’t go as planned, leading to self-blame. Here you can read about the ways to regain confidence and reconnect with trust in your body

This article emphasizes the importance of building an own support network which can ensure that your loved ones understand the emotional, physical, and psychological toll of fertility treatment and can give you the kind of support you would like to have.

Let’s think of the questions which, when asked, can make you see things in a different…

Imagine yourself somewhere in your 80s-90s having no kids of your own. How would you feel?…

Talking about motivation in egg donation programme is always vulnerable. You can easily hear people saying: “Oh yeah, no need to tell these fairy-tales to me! Money is the only motivation they have!”

I have talked to some women that are coming to a point in their lives where they need to decide whether to have children or keep their husband that is against their future egg donation or embryo adoption treatment.

Dear readers, today we will talk about ENDOMETRIOSIS and how a better diet can affect it.…

She called me, she told me that she felt her life was falling apart as she had just found out that her first embryo adoption attempt had failed.

I often hear: Do you think I stress too much? Is that why I am not pregnant yet? Everyone around me tells me that I stress too much. Maybe they are right?

Embryo adoption: I have one child that is my genetic child, now I want a second child through embryo adoption, should I tell my second child its offspring?

Recent studies also show us how important it is to eat healthy while pregnant so that the fetus blood sugar level keeps normal and not too high. Pregnant women with PCOS or just overweight in itself, tend to get high insulin levels and often get gestational diabetes.

During fertility treatment, women often need support from their closest family. Some of the women I have talked to have one sorrow in common; they don’t get support from their mothers!

They claim that health is not only the absence of a disease, it’s a joyfulness that should be inside us all the time.

After 4 years of failed IVF treatments and attempts to have children with their own genetic material. Positive pregnancy test after miscarriage

Last night I held my therapy group in Norway, five women talked about how it felt to celebrate Christmas and another year without a child. The word “celebrate” did not give them any meaning anymore, the only thing they want to celebrate is a pregnancy and that has not yet happened.

Patients that have had miscarriages often ask me what do? And how to cope with their situation? So here is some of my advice…

Many of the woman I have met in my office suffer from the same problems; they feel that their life has been put on hold and they feel that they have no more energy. They are tired after several failed attempts, they feel frustrated and they don’t know what to do to get their energy back.

The woman is longing for a child and has been through years of fertility treatment. She has been a patient at different IVF clinics around the world and tried treatment with her own eggs and also treatment with donor eggs.

She is sitting in my office crying “Everyone else is getting pregnant, I’m the only one who can ‘t get pregnant. Why is this happening to me? What have I done wrong?

Mother in 40. Here are some words for you that you have between 40-49 and think you are too old: When you get pregnant and hold the baby in your arms

She was crying, she was so disappointed about another failed attempt. She already has a son that is 9 years old, but now she wants a sibling for him.

As a counselor, I work a lot with couples. Couples that find themselves in a situation that they really didn’t expect to be in. Suddenly they need to make decisions that can disturb their values, their inner peace and the respect for each other.

I know already many of the questions you will have before deciding to do egg donation treatment and I also know that it is not necessary to have an answer to every one of them right now.

When you see women around you who are pregnant or holding newborn babies in their arms – how do you feel? Feels unfair that you only need egg donation

This week I talked to a beautiful woman at the age of 43. She was crying, she told me about her frustration and her grieving over her own situation.

When I talk to couples I find it’s just as important to focus on the man before IVF treatment as the woman.

Sometimes our inner voice and mind do not agree with each other. That happens with many of my patients. I talked to a lovely patient yesterday. Her inner voice told her that she was not finished with having children. Her family was not complete.

I have just talked to a woman that was crying, we talked about her grief. She was grieving over not being able to use her own eggs in fertility treatment. She is 44 years old and the doctors have told her that it’s too late to use her own eggs as the quality of the eggs are not good enough. She is now considering egg donation.

I had a session with a very happy women last week, she told me that she was 8 months pregnant. Her pregnancy is a result of egg donation treatment, she has a son that is 3 years old and soon he will have a sister.

Often I talk to patients and they feel that their life is unfair. They don’t understand why they are the one that needs to go through IVF treatment? Why they need to go through more than one attempt? And why no clinic can tell them exactly when they will get pregnant?

Many of my patients are frustrated because their partners, friends and family want them to have a break from their fertility treatment.

How does a man experience the process of medical investigation of his fertility? Will a man’s reduced sperm fertility lead to a lowered self-image, and make him less of a man in the eyes of others?