Feb 24, 2021 | Ear Nose and Throat Health, Gastrointestinal Health
Most people with a hiatus hernia have no symptoms at all. They don’t even know they’ve got one. Hiatus Hernia can affect anyone and most people who have it have no symptoms. So this is where part of the stomach comes up into the chest so that you’ve...
Feb 24, 2021 | First Aid and Self-Care, Healthy Living, Women's Health
Iron levels in the body can be replaced with a healthy died of broad leaf vegetables and enough meat is enough to naturally replace iron levels in the body. People get very worried about their iron levels. Particularly women, understandably, because they lose blood...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFJC, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
The beautiful thing about the CBD Clinic is that everyone who supports you on the day of the egg collection will be someone that you’ve met before. There’ll be our beautiful nurse who runs the day stay unit. There’ll be myself there to answer the...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFJC, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
The most common issue that we’re really looking out for during the actual IVF process is a condition called hyperstimulation. That’s where your oestrogen starts to rise faster than what we’d like to see. We like to pick that up early, and bring back...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFKR
Within the IVF cycle, the IVF units and the nurses will organise a pregnancy test at the earliest possible accurate date to see whether you’re pregnant. Generally, that occurs about 12 days after an embryo transfer if you have an embryo transfer on day five....
Feb 24, 2021 | Coronavirus - COVID-19, MonashIVFKR
Generally these days, particularly in Australia, we aim to implant one embryo at a time and that allows IVF to be as safe as possible for the mother and the baby and avoid multiple pregnancies. Occasionally, one embryo can split into two pregnancies. That’s...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFKR, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
So it’s recommended prior to starting IVF that both the female and male partner stop smoking, don’t use any illicit drugs and minimise the alcohol intake. Small amounts of caffeine can be had but again, keeping that in a minimum. If a woman is overweight...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFKR, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
So for couples experiencing recurrent miscarriage, there are several causes that need to be eliminated. The most common cause is an increase in female age. And as a woman ages, she’s more and more likely to produce an egg that’s abnormal. And then that...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFKR, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
So IVF stands for in-vitro fertilisation, and what that means is that the fertilisation, so the sperm entering the egg, occurs in a laboratory situation rather than in-vivo, which means within the body. Dr Katrina Rowan is a fertility specialist, reproductive...
Feb 24, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy, MonashIVFKR, Procedures, Sexual Health, Women's Health
Embryo development is a complicated process that we see the initial parts of during the IVF process in the laboratory. So the first step is that the sperm needs to fertilise the egg and that occurs either by mixing the egg and sperm or by a procedure called...
