2021 Out Leadership Summit
The desire to have children is independent of sex, sexuality or gender identity and there are many different paths to parenthood. Yet there remain many barriers for LGBTI+ people at work.
This Thursday, 4 November, City Fertility and Rainbow Fertility partners with Out Leadership for a conversation at the Out Leadership 7th Australian Summit to explore real changes businesses can make to support LGBTI+ employees and their families.
Why is the menstrual cycle so important to fertility?
Essentially, the human menstrual cycle is a pattern of changes that occur within the ovary and uterus for the purposes of reproduction. These changes involve a complex interaction of hormones that allow for follicles to mature and eggs to be released (ovulation) before hormones are produced to nourish an embryo should fertilisation have occurred. If fertilisation hasn’t occurred, the uterine lining is shed through menstruation.
Dr Tiarna Ernst joins the City Fertility Team
City Fertility warmly welcomes Dr Tiarna Ernst to its expanding Brisbane clinic located in Newstead.
Passionate about women’s health, gender equality, education and leadership, Dr Ernst is a multi-talented professional who prides herself on her commitment to a progressive, evidence-based and compassionate approach to treating all her patients.
Women need to stop being told to ‘just try again’ after miscarriages
The widespread annual incidence of miscarriage is estimated to impact one in 10 women in their lifetime, but experts say it needs better diagnosis, investigation and management according to a substantial three-part report published in medical journal The Lancet in April. Dr Dean Conrad, obstetrician, gynaecologist and specialist with City Fertility said he usually only sees patients after they have had two or three miscarriages and are often very anxious by this stage.
Know the facts about the AMH test in assessing your egg reserve
Fertility specialists will commonly request an Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) blood test as one of the first medical assessments for new patients.
There are two main reasons we use this test – firstly as an initial indicator to evaluate a patient’s egg reserve and secondly to test their response to fertility medication.
Importantly, the results of an AMH test is best interpreted by a fertility specialist, and the gold standard test to determine egg reserve is an antral follicle count (AFC) – a transvaginal ultrasound that counts ovarian antral follicles. An AFC is done ideally in the first half of a woman’s cycle, before ovulation.
What is the Anti-Mullerian Hormone test?
Women’s Health Week: Focusing on female infertility
City Fertility supports the Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week (6-10 September) which is dedicated to all women across Australia to make good health a priority.
If you’re currently focusing on your fertility health or planning, then there are plenty of things you can do to enhance your fertility and a range of treatments available if and when you need it.
The desire to become a parent is independent of sex, sexuality or gender identity, and there are also many different paths to parenthood, whether as a couple, shared or sole parenting, and they also include adoption, foster care and surrogacy.
Fathers’ Day – Making plans to be a dad
Planning and starting a family is deeply personal, emotional and exciting. But sometimes it can be a stressful experience when your plans for a family are not going as expected, and days of significance that bring families together, like Fathers’ Day, can be tough.
Future dads, as you know, you’ve got an equally important role to play in achieving a healthy pregnancy, and your sperm needs to be just as healthy as women’s eggs to get the best chances of a pregnancy.
City Fertility would like to warmly welcome Dr Stephen Elgey to our Gold Coast clinic
City Fertility would like to warmly welcome Dr Stephen Elgey to our Gold Coast clinic.
Sharing his time between his Sunnybank practice and his new practice at Robina, Dr Elgey provides specialised care in fertility and gynaecology and is dedicated to giving his patients the best chance to achieve their dream of having a baby.
Genetic embryo testing helping reduce hereditary diseases in newborns
Research suggests that 30 per cent of children’s hospital admissions are due to genetic disorders, however with the help of advanced preimplantation genetic testing of embryos, the number of children born with these genetic diseases can potentially be reduced.
At City Fertility we employ the most advanced genetic testing method currently available called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). NGS is an extremely sensitive testing method with the analysis including several hundred thousand readings for each chromosome.
Know the facts: Pregnancy and the COVID-19 Vaccine
If you are planning a pregnancy you are probably wondering if it is safe to have the COVID-19 vaccine and if so, should you have it now, wait until you are pregnant or have it after pregnancy?
The advice is that you can receive the Pfizer mRNA (Cominarty) vaccine if you are either planning a pregnancy or if you are currently pregnant.
The reasoning for getting vaccinated is that the potential risk of severe outcomes associated with actually contracting COVID-19 is significantly higher for pregnant women and their unborn baby.
