Mediatrix Wellness Podcast · What Do We Know of Men and Preconception Care? Writers note: This article was originally published in July 2020 and has been updated in July 2021 Historically, our culture has not always included men in the preconception conversation. There is a growing awareness around men as birthing partners and paternal post-natal […]

Mediatrix Wellness Podcast · Gathering The Building Blocks: The Importance Of Preconception Nutrition   I’ve been buried in preconception research this past couple of weeks for my workshop, Nourishing Your Fertility. I’m in one of my favourite places when I can do a 360º immersion on a topic, cross-pollinate, distil, alchemise old with new, take […]

How surreal it feels to be penning this piece on my journey on preparing to conceive and conception as I’m 38 weeks pregnant, on the precipice of an entirely new chapter of life. While my conception story isn’t a long fertility journey, it didn’t happen right away either. But it is my story, and enfolded […]

 Mediatrix Wellness Podcast · Knowing When You Can Conceive, with Fertility Awareness   Knowing the best time to get pregnant has been made unnecessarily complicated. Aside from IVF and other artificial reproductive technologies (ART) there is a sleuth of products out there from ovulation test strips to calculators, to apps to salvia microscopes. Women intimately […]

Determining the best time to get pregnant is a very simple process of learning how to read your body’s fertile signs. Have you ever had the experience of hearing something that seems so outrageous, yet in your gut you know how it could be true.  Or when you’re at a point in life where there […]