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FERTILITY and BEYOND – making healthy babies. Tuesday 15th July 2008 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm

A special event for couples planning to conceive and healthcare practitioners working with infertility. Come and spend an evening with expert practitioners to hear about pre-conception health and well-being, methods to improve male and female fertility, techniques for maintaining a healthy pregnancy and much more.

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Instituto Marques is one of the leading fertility clinics in Spain, offering a host of fertility related treatments. Representatives of the IM clinic approached us early in 2006 and invited us to visit their establishment to both observe how their clinic facilitates its treatments and to meet the medical staff working directly with patients at every level.

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The mind records all of our life events and feelings. Even though we may feel that we forget about them if we push them to the back of our minds – they are still there and if not dealt with can continue to surface in subtle ways and conscientiously and unconscientiously cause us stress. Every single thing that ever happens to us is there in our mind, locked somewhere in our memory. In a sense, we have a whole personal history book inside our heads. There is a constant “dialogue” between our thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that produce chemical, hormonal, neurological and muscular changes. These changes can throw off the delicately balanced hormonal system involved in reproduction.
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Saturday 9th June 2007
Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s Church, 240 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow
9.00 am - 5.30pm
Cost £35.00 (refreshments provided, please bring lunch)
Tickets available from Foresight Preconception,
tel. 01243 868140 or email teresa.iche@foresight-preconception.org.uk

The programme includes:
* Optimising the diet
* No smoking, no alcohol, no caffeine
* Using natural family planning
* Checks for GUIs, allergies, intestinal parasites, and treatment where necessary.
* Hair Mineral Analysis and the correction of levels.
* Where indicated, checking for electromagnetic pollution and geophysical stress in the home.
PROGRAMME FOR THE STUDY DAY
08.30 Doors Open
09.00 Chair opens meeting - Paula Baille-Hamilton
09.10 Optimum Diet - Alison Farnham, Nutritionist
09.50 Chemical Hazards - Maria Griffiths
10.30 Coffee Break
10.50 Allergies - Alison Farnham, Nutritionist
11.20 Smoking - Julia Martin
12.00 Electromagnetism and Geopathic Stress - Roy Riggs
12.50 Lunch Break
13.50 Hair Mineral Analysis - Belinda Barnes, Foresight Founder
14.30 TBA
15.20 Coffee Break
15.40 Alcohol - Belinda Barnes, Foresight Founder
16.10 Vaccines and Immunisations - Dr Sheila Gibson
16.50 The Chair sums up - Paula Baille-Hamilton
17.00 Panel for questions
17.30 Meeting closes

The next 10 week Mind Body Fertility course is about to begin in Glasgow on the Nov 2007. The course is based on the renowned Alice Domar’s Mind Body programme run worldwide and will be held at the David Lloyd centre in Renfrew every Thursday between 6.30-9pm. For more information on the programme schedule please visit www.mindbodyfertility.co.uk
To register for the programme email us at info@mindbodyfertility.co.uk or call Seeta 07818001995. We are currently holding intake appointments for those who wish to enrol on the programme and shall be doing so up until the beginning of Nov 2007

Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage and IVF failure - Explained.
by Alan E. Beer M.D.
ISBN 0978507800
(Published October 28th 2006)

What to do when your immune system says “no” to pregnancy. This new book contains information on the latest medical tests and treatments to help women conceive and carry to term. Working in collaboration with IVF doctors and REs Dr Beer has achieved a success rate of over 85% in a patient group whose average age exceeds 36. The book also includes a special section on the effects of environmental toxins how natural therapies can work alongside conventional drug treatments to help balance the immune system and make it more “baby friendly".

“Finally, a clear message that recurrent IVF failure, infertility and miscarriage can be categorized and treated. This book is a wonderful resource for all those struggling with recurrent failure and loss.” - Christo Zouves, M.D., Founder and Director of the Zouves Fertility Center

The British Fertility Society are holding an open meeting on Wednesday 5th September 2006 in Glasgow. Patients are invited to attend the evening session hosted by Dr Mark Hamilton of Aberdeen’s ACS unit and Dr Tony Harrold from Ninewell’s ACS unit. All questions should be sent prior to the evening of the meeting. Please download PDF file for details of the evening events and contact Susan Seenan at INUK for more information mailto:susan.seenan@virgin.net

It is likely that every woman on the planet who has experienced infertility has heard from someone, or from lots of someones, to “just relax”. Or to “stop trying so hard”, or to “just adopt and you will get pregnant” or one of a thousand silly remarks which might have been meant to help you, but end up doing just the opposite.

Telling someone who is doing everything in her power to conceive a healthy baby to “just relax” is insulting, demeaning, and insinuates that her stress level is causing her infertility.
But what is the relationship between stress and infertility? Is it possible that stress is harmless in this situation, that indeed shots and procedures and surgeries override any impact of stress? Or is it possible that indeed stress can play a role in infertility?
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Counselling helps “perfectionist” women regain their fertility and become pregnant, US researchers say. They found cognitive behaviour therapy alone was enough to help some women who had stopped having periods and ovulating to regain their fertility. The therapy is usually used to treat people with depression.

A European fertility conference in Prague heard a build-up of stress can play a major role in preventing a woman from ovulating. But sometimes the effect can build up gradually in a subtle way.

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) can counter this by helping women to “make molehills out of mountains", the researchers said. Many of the women seen by the team were perfectionists - whether they had high-powered jobs or stayed at home - leading to high levels of stress.

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Cradle held its 3rd Fundraising day in just 12 months on the 3rd June 2006. This years return to GOALS in Glasgow was an excellent day with great weather and some fantastic football played by 22 very sporting men and 1 extremely enthusiastic girl.



All players were fantastic for taking part and the winning Cradle trophy went to John Gray’s team who out played all other teams on the day. We had a superb turn out of just over one hundred friends and family of Cradle members who raised in the region of £1400.00. This money will go towards helping us to continue to provide all of the support and information to patients and their families for the next year. Part of last years money went towards supporting one of our group leaders in completing a counselling skills course at Glasgow University. Due to the benefits that these skills have brought in helping to work with others in difficult situations, we plan to send one other group leader on the same course this year.

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A drug which may encourage embryos to implant in the womb has shown encouraging results in early trials - producing babies for women who had endured repeated IVF failures.
The drug, LIF, will now move to wider trials before it is offered routinely to women.

Fertility treatment is successful in fewer than half of all couples who try them, even after repeated attempts. Many of these failures cannot be properly explained, although doctors suspect that in some cases, the fertilised embryo fails to implant correctly in the wall of the womb after it is transferred back by doctors.

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Twins are more common for older mums because they are more prone to produce multiple eggs in a cycle than younger women, a Dutch study has found.
Increases in fertility treatment could not, on its own, explain the rate of births of non-identical twins.

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A woman who was minutes away from having a hysterectomy after years of failing to conceive discovered she was pregnant after a routine test.

Natasha Hill-Cannan, 33, had attempted to start a family for eight years, and had tried IVF without success.

The mother from Ebbw Vale suffered from endometriosis, an agonizing condition affecting the womb, and agreed to a hysterectomy to try to end the pain. Her son Henry was born seven months after the cancelled operation.

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Women are being offered a new test kit that allows them to predict the rate at which their fertility is declining. The test works by measuring the number of eggs in a woman’s ovaries and indicating what that level might be like in two years time. It is hoped the test, designed by fertility experts at Sheffield University, will help women decide how long they can delay trying for a baby.

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The world’s first over-the-counter home fertility test for men has been developed by scientists at Birmingham University. The Fertell test works in less than an hour and gives couples an early warning of potential fertility problems.