All IVF ever wanted

In this episode, we talk about our frozen Embryo Transfer that took place last monday. We are now 6 days post transfer and 6 days in to the wait to test. We talk about the day itself, what we did in which order and how having an overly full bladder was the most uncomfortable part of the process. We only have a few days until official test day and we are continuing to share in real time. Thank you...

This episode we share about travelling to the UK and our first appointments and blood tests. My cycle started 4 days late so pushed everything back by a few days! We share the updates, my lining thickness on day 10 of my cycle and blood results from day 17 of my cycle. I have been having regular acupuncture and I have acupuncture booked for frozen embryo transfer day. We have just 2 days until tra...

We have FINALLY booked and committed to our frozen embryo transfer cycle, I am currently on day 26 of my cycle (the cycle before our FET cycle), I took the injection on day 21 of my current cycle to shut my ovaries down to go in to a fully medicated transfer. We talk about the realisation that I have been suffering for (likely) years with perimenopause and I have just discovered HRT and now I have...

This episode is us catching up with you after an almighty hiatus! It has been a hot minute... This episode was recorded in January 2025 (gosh we really are terrible with staying up to date!) and it is now July! We will be recording weekly (fingers crossed) from now until our frozen embryo Transfer, plus I have some old recordings with professionals that I will be releasing too as I know the conten...

So, as many of you know (if you follow me on social media) we have had a very unexpected spontaneous pregnancy test and I am currently nearing 12 weeks pregnant. This episode we talk about what has been going on for us since we found out, how we found out and how we have been feeling navigating pregnancy after loss/termination for medical reasons.  We hope that by sharing this next very unexpected...

This episode we talk about receiving our PGT-A results on our embryos in London and the prep and consultations that were in process and booked for our FET which was scheduled for my end of March Cycle for a beginning of April frozen embryo transfer.  I am sharing the FET prep that I had booked, started and was doing  because although our journey has had an unexpected turn of events, I hope that so...

Eva Stecz has been a fertility acupuncturist for 15 years. Her first job was at the Zita West clinic where she worked with doctors , midwives and nurses, providing a great opportunity to learn about the medical side of fertility. Eva also practices in fertility massages to optimise reproductive health and she is also a certified Mercier Therapy practitioner. Recently Eva has introduced Low Level L...

Melanie Brown is  nutritionist that specialises in Fertility nutrition. Taking a balanced and realistic approach to changes and optimising Sperm and eggs for Fertility treatments. Mel has 20 years experience as a nutritionist, history of infertility, miscarriage and premature menopause so she really does know how bumy this journey can be. Mel has a Masters in Nutritional Medicine and specialises i...

Nurture.hf is a not for profit that has been created by Christiana, who is an embryologist, to support patients going through fertility treatments with evidence-based information and facts to support them in their journey. Christiana is passionate about empowering others with information about reproductive and fertility education as we are taught so little about this as part of our education when...

Emma Whitney, Laboratory Manager, is an Embryologist with nearly 20 years of practical IVF laboratory experience specialising in pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos with a passion to prevent the transmission of inherited genetic disease and enhancing the capabilities of embryo selection. She breaks it down for us in a way that can help us to understand what the different genetic test on em...

This week we are back with an update on the last 2 weeks.  Last week I was so tired from stims and and then we travelled back to Dubai so you have our big update in this episode.  We talk about the second week of stims, Egg retrieval day, receiving embryo updates and being able to eat all the things! Thank you as always for listening and the next episodes will be with my guests who are both embryo...

We are in the UK now and stims has started. We talk about the emotional wobbles during this round so far, running the Covid gauntlet from Dubai to the UK, fighting with pomegranates and how the scans have gone so far. We also talk numbers and how to be aware of managing expectations on the numbers of eggs vs usable embryos and how they decrease at the different stages of the IVF process. Thank you...

Do not underestimate the emotional rollercoaster of IVF treatment. Being pumped full of hormones is no joke and can really impair your ability to remain your 'normal' self. In this episode we share with you how we prepare and the post emotional agreements that we have in place to help us navigate IVF. It took us a few cycles to realise that we needed to have these conversations and to feel the ben...

In this episode we are talking all about the PRIMESTER and why sperm matters too. Did you know it takes 10-12 weeks to produce new sperm and eggs? We knew this about eggs but until this summer we didn't know this about sperm. We have gone in to this heavily for our prep for our next cycle. In previous cycles we haven't looked at prep for sperm really, we have been so focussed on increasing egg qua...

In this episode we are talking about how after 7 rounds of fertility treatment we took a closer look at Sperm health and DNA fragmentation and the prep that we are both on for our next round of IVF Follow on socials on instagram @emmakbelle Join the IVF after loss facebook group HERE Find more about TFMR Mamas Support HERE Find Emma's website for Emotional and Bipolar Mentoring HERE

This episode, we are bringing you up to speed with the short version of our story so far and how we are in this space.  Follow on socials on instagram @emmakbelle Join the IVF after loss facebook group HERE Find more about TFMR Mamas Support HERE Find Emma's website for Emotional and Bipolar Mentoring HERE

Welcome to our little podcast that will be documenting our next and possibly last round of IVF as we try to bring home a living baby. Thank you for being here and we are grateful for your support. Emma Belle and Gareth x Follow on socials on instagram @emmakbelle   Join the IVF after loss facebook group HERE   Find more about TFMR Mamas Support HERE Find Emma's website for Emotional and...