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Welcome to your no B.S. approach to creating the family of your DREAMS when you’re dealing with Fertility Issues, aka ”Infertility”! Whether you can get pregnant naturally or need medical assistance, Finding Fertility can help you maximise your chances of getting and staying pregnant by using science-backed Holistic Functional Fertility Health Coaching!
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Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
💚 On Tuesdays, I'm bringing back some of the first podcast I recorded. They are raw and not newly edited, so you will hear the podcast being called Infertile Diagnosis. But don't worry, you're still getting top quality content and the support you need 💚
Topics discussed:
🦩Meal Planning - pros & cons
🦩Support Systems
🦩The way you look at “change of diet.”
🦩The language you use about cans & can not’s
Hello Beautiful People!
When you start making any significant changes to help increase your fertility, it’s best to set yourself upright. You want to improve your diet & increase your fertility, but you seem to stop and start again and again.
Sarah and I talk about some of the critical things that you can do to help you increase your new fertility diet in this episode of the Finding Fertility podcast: What is the best way to increase fertility? Top Tips when Improving your Diet for Fertility
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
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Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
“Don’t let anyone tell you there’s nothing you can do yourself.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Not taking no for an answer.
🦩Healing yourself.
🦩The immune link to infertility.
🦩Is Your Body Baby Friendly?
This is the book that changed my life: Is Your Body Baby Friendly? How are you miss carriage in idea failure can be explained and treated with immunotherapy by Alan E. Beer, M.D.
When I was told that my infertility was just “one of those things” that did not sit well with me and started me on my own journey of researching and beginning to study why I couldn’t get pregnant and work through my own health as well as mental health.
Oftentimes doctors will not take you seriously until you have several miscarriages. This can be extremely frustrating. A doctor wouldn’t allow you to have multiple heart attacks before looking into what is going on, and we shouldn’t accept anything different for our infertility.
"We need to stop believing that our bodies and lady bits are not connected”
We have to ask questions, do our research, and be willing to find someone willing to work with us. I had nurses and doctors tell me that what I wanted to do was impossible.
Clearly, it wasn’t since I ended up getting pregnant, but it just goes to show that we cannot just take what a doctor tells us as fact and we have to be responsible for our own bodies and our own health in order to bring our dreams to reality.
If you're still reaching for your answer to unexplained infertility I highly recommend Is Your Body Baby Friendly? How are you miss carriage in idea failure can be explained and treated with immunotherapy by Alan E. Beer, M.D. over on amazon: https://amzn.to/353mLei
“Your gut health matters.”
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
💚 On Tuesdays, I'm bringing back some of the first podcast I recorded. They are raw and not newly edited, so you will hear the podcast being called Infertile Diagnosis. But don't worry, you're still getting top quality content and the support you need 💚
Topics Discussed:
🦩 Pineapple Core
🦩Pomegranate Juice
🦩Keeping Your Feet Warm
🦩Fertility Supplements
🦩McDonald's French Fries
You better believe I tried any and every superstition & myth related to IVF & infertility during my journey. Why not - they weren't going to do my body any harm - RIGHT?
And back in my early years of infertility, I was willing to do ANYTHING to get a BFP.
But hindsight is a bitch and knowing what I know now, none of these infertility superstitions/myths would have work for me - Sarah either. 5 Infertility, IVF & Fertility Treatments Superstitions & Myths Debunked
One - they were way too narrow minded. Only focusing on "implantation" - I know now there's a LOT more to get & maintaining a healthy pregnancy.
Two - They may not have individually "hurting" my chances. But with all the other shit going on in my body, they were adding to the inflammation and chaos going on, which was making me infertile.
Does that mean you shouldn't do them? Well, here's the thing - many of these IVF & infertility superstitions - myths can be doing you more harm than helping. We break down from a whole-body & functional medicine perspective and hopefully help you to rethink these IVF/infertility superstitions/myths.
1:54 McDonald's French Fries - 8:04 YouTube clip I'm on about:
You’ll Never Eat McDonald’s French Fries Again After Watching This
How Nasty are McDonald's Fries?
What you’re really eating when you eat McDonald’s French Fries
9:26 Pineapple Core
14:23 Pomegranate Juice
16:46 Keeping Your Feet Warm
19:18 Taking any & every Supplement
26:00 Top Tips
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: http://bit.ly/FFSpotifyPodcast
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
“The stress of waiting to get to week twelve is insane.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Deciding on IVF
🦩The difficulties of IVF
🦩Why changing your lifestyle has more benefits than getting pregnant.
🦩Common Misconceptions with IVF
We sometimes think that IVF can be a quick fix to getting pregnant, and while there are circumstances where IVF can be beneficial and can be a route for someone, often it is not an easier path, because it has its own obstacles and difficult things to get through. It can seem easier because initially, we think that we don’t have to change the way we eat and work on our mindset, but often IVF is still unsuccessful.
“IVF is not a quick fix.”
On top of that, it’s important to realize that eating better, working on our mental health, and becoming a healthier version of ourselves is very important in order for us to deal with the stress of our fertility journey and can increase our chances of IVF being successful if that is the route that needs to be taken.
“Infertility is super fickle.
Remember there are no quick fixes and we have to put in the work to better ourselves so that we give ourselves the best chance to create the family of our dreams.
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
💚 On Tuesdays, I'm bringing back some of the first podcast I recorded. They are raw and not newly edited, so you will hear the podcast being called Infertile Diagnosis. But don't worry, you're still getting top quality content and the support you need 💚
Can a 'Fertility Diet' Actually Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant?
Hello Beautiful! Are you on a "Fertility Diet" to help increase your chances of getting pregnant naturally or to improve your chances of IVF success?
Do you feel like it's just not working for you? For the simple fact that you're not pregnant yet, or you can't maintain a healthy pregnancy. I feel ya girl - I was there for years! And here's what I learnt - there's NO perfect fertility diet that everyone dealing with infertility should be doing.
We all have different needs & we have to figure out what the perfect fertility diet is for us. I went Paleo for over a year and even though it helped me improve my overall health & embryo quality I didn't get pregnant - even with the support of IVF.
I had to dig deeper and figure out what foods worked best for me & what was causing inflammation = my unexplained infertility.
Sarah & I discuss why your Fertility Diet might not be working for you & how to figure out what you need to do to create the best fertility diet for yourself!
Let's Do This Together 💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: http://bit.ly/FFSpotifyPodcast
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
“Stress can lead to pregnancy issues.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Recurring miscarriages
🦩Determining how stressed out you are.
🦩Finding out your egg quality.
🦩Getting pregnant and the covid vaccine.
“Pregnancy is not a sign of health.”
When we are on the infertility journey stress can be overwhelming. Oftentimes what we don’t realize is that we are bringing a great deal of stress just from everyday life. Then when we add to that the stress of not being able to have a child it can be overwhelming. In this episode, I take several questions in regards to stress and talk about the connection between stress and infertility.
“We are natural forgetters because it is a survival technique.”
In addition, we talk about supplements, egg quality, oils, and the vegan diet. I love being able to answer these questions because they resonate with just about everyone who is on the fertility journey. I cover several things the help take the pressure off yourself and walk into a healthier lifestyle.
“Keeping an eye on common issues can help pinpoint where pressure is coming from.”
Let's Do This Together
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Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
💚 On Tuesdays, I'm bringing back some of the first podcast I recorded. They are raw and not newly edited, so you will hear the podcast being called Infertile Diagnosis. But don't worry, you're still getting top quality content and the support you need 💚
HELLO BEAUTIFUL! Today we have Clare Goodwin on the podcast talking about when she called Bullsh*t on conventional treatments for PCOS!
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a very common endocrine condition, which affects approximately 5-10% of young women. Woman with PCOS are often put on the pill at a young age, which can cause more chaos when you're ready to start trying to conceive.
PCOS and infertility can go hand in hand. PCOS can negatively impact your fertility due to the fact your body does not release an egg, each month because of the overproduction of estrogen by the ovaries. When ovulation does not occur regularly, periods become irregular and increased levels of hormones such as testosterone, which can have a big impact on egg quality. PCOS can lead to insulin resistance, and increase the risk disorders such as gestational diabetes.
That's a lot to take in & we haven't even covered abnormal hair growth, acne & weight gain!
I wanted to have Clare on the podcast, because she is the perfect example of taking control & calling BS on the way conventional medicine was treating her PCOS. She was following it all to a T & still feeling like shit. She started to do things a little differently & found she could not only manage her PCOS but thrive.
Let's Do This Together 💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide :: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: http://bit.ly/FFSpotifyPodcast
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
“The mindset is the number one thing missing from your fertility diet.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩Asking the question ‘why me’.
🦩How living in a physical world causes physical problems.
🦩The power of investigating the emotional and spiritual side.
🦩Understanding that we do difficult things for the future.
When we are on the infertility journey it can be really to ask ourselves the question ‘why me’? What did we do to deserve this and we can go to a very dark place. But we have to realize that this isn’t necessarily any fault of our own. It’s not the universe telling us we are a bad person. Rather it has to do with the genes we have been given, and the lifestyle and diet choices we have made over our life.
“The diet and lifestyle you’ve been living have a huge impact on your fertility.”
We live in a physical world and physical things are going to happen to us because of that, just know it is not anything against you. I dive into the emotional and the spiritual elements of that and how we need to dive deep into our thought process. While that alone is not enough, it is a vital part of the process as we change our lifestyle to support our overall health and the future health of our children.
“You have the power to improve your situation.”
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
"Start with where you are at."
Topics Discussed:
🦩Why you feel like crap when you start an autoimmune diet.
🦩How fast should you cut out unhealthy foods?
🦩Histamine foods, what they are, and if you should have them.
🦩Natural laxatives.
🦩Are juice cleanses necessary?
When you start eating right it’s not uncommon to feel really bad at first. Our bodies are going through a big change, and you can have withdrawals when you come off of certain foods like sugar or caffeine. This is completely normal. This is also why it is important to start where you are and not rush the process. Depending on how addicted we are to certain unhealthy foods we may need to wean ourselves off it rather than going cold turkey.
"Usually, the last thing to click into place is your fertility."
In addition, as we change this process our bodies are cleaning themselves. This may lead to either too many bowel movements or not enough so I am talking about how to naturally get things moving with that or how you may need to cut out certain items to slow it down. I also tackle juice cleanses. They have grown so much in popularity but are they really necessary and is juice cleansing really a thing?
"You have to find your balance."
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
“Digging deeper is sometimes really necessary.”
Topics Discussed:
🦩E numbers and oils, and are they hurting you?
🦩Why when you start eating clean you can feel like crap.
🦩How long do you need to be on your specific diet?
🦩Passing down dirty genes.
In this episode, I am discussing a lot of common questions I get asked. We are starting with our overall health, along with generational health. We have a tendency to look at our grandparents and their way of life and think they are healthy, but what we don’t realize is generational with the introduction of more unhealthy products, rancid oils, and more that our health is consistently growing worse with each generation. This is why it’s important to focus on our health not only for ourselves but to improve the genes of our future children because we are the ones passing on to them the genes they will have forever.
“Working with someone can get you on the right track.
I also talk about foods that we are told are healthy by food industries and marketing companies, but actually are filled with products that are not good for us. I fell into this with constantly going to whole foods thinking that everything in there must be healthy but upon further examination found many unhealthy products in “health” food. This is why it’s so important to really examine everything we put in our bodies.
“The less boxed food you eat, the less you risk eating inflammatory foods.”
Let's Do This Together
💚
Monica
🦩 Download your FREE PDF guide:: 3 Step Guide to Improving Your Chances of Getting & Staying Pregnant || https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide
🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with the Fertility Food Program || https://www.findingfertility.co/FerilityFood
Connect with Monica over on:
Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG
TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok
🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:
Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE
Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY
Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3eHuAKZ
🍍Support Finding Fertility & shop for your favourite fertility-friendly products over on:
Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon
🍍
Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.