fertility

Providing realistic and customized support to help you take the guesswork out of optimizing your fertility

How We Can Help

Chances are if you’re here, you’ve been trying to conceive unsuccessfully for some time. If trying to get pregnant is ruling your life, you spend way too much time at your fertility clinic, you don’t understand why you’re not getting pregnant, or you keep cancelling plans because another one of your friends just had a baby while you’re still struggling, you’re in the right place.

Our team is here to help you take the guesswork out of optimizing your fertility, and provide you with a customized and realistic treatment plan to help you move forward.

What Is Infertility Anyway?

Infertility is the inability to successfully conceive after one full year of unprotected sex . In Canada, infertility impacts 1 in 6 couples. For those experiencing infertility, approximately one third is due to female factors, one third is due to male factors, and one third is a combination of both. In approximately 10% of cases, infertility is unexplained with no identifiable causes. Infertility impacts men and women equally, making it important to look at both partners when trying to get pregnant. Receiving a diagnosis of infertility and going through fertility treatments can be incredibly isolating, demoralizing, and challenging to navigate on your own.

Common causes of infertility we often treat include:

• Advanced age or ‘early menopause’ - known as Premature Ovarian Insufficiency

• Poor egg quality or poor ovarian reserve

• PCOS

• Endometriosis

• Hypothyroidism or Hyperthyroidism

• Hormonal Imbalances

• Hypothalamic Amenorrhea

• Hyperprolactinemia 

• Toxin exposures

• Immune dysfunction including autoimmunity

• Implantation failure or Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

What to Expect

Wherever you are in your fertility journey, our team will take the time to hear you, meet you where you are at, and help you feel confident in your health decisions for yourself and your future family. Our ultimate goal is always to dig deeper and find the unique underlying causes of infertility, so that you have the best chance possible of getting pregnant, and you begin to see your body as an ally and not the enemy anymore!

Whether you are trying to conceive naturally, or using assisted reproductive technologies such as fertility drugs, IUI, or IVF, we are here to support you. If you have an upcoming IUI or IVF cycle planned, we recommend getting in touch with us 3 months in advance to ensure we optimize your health as much as possible beforehand!

Fertility Foundations: Our 5 Step Program

It’s time to optimize your fertility and reclaim your sense of self! This is exactly why we created the Fertility Foundations Program. This 5-step program will help you take the guesswork out of getting pregnant, so you can move forward with your future.

our 5-step program

1. Identify Barriers  - We complete extremely comprehensive intakes and lab testing to understand your general health status, your immune status, your reproductive hormone status, your nutrient status, and identify where things are going wrong. We also send you home to complete symptom monitoring and cycle tracking so we can start to pick up on your unique patterns.

2. Support Foundations – This is where your treatment begins. We ensure the foundations of reproductive health are in place so we’re optimizing your chances as quickly as possible. This includes correcting things like ovulatory function, egg quality, immune function, digestive function, food sensitivities, and environmental exposures. Often just supporting these and putting them into place can make a world of difference! We teach you how to implement foundational supports in a balanced way so you never feel restricted.

3. Customized + Targeted Supplementation – Once we receive all of your lab results and symptom diary we start targeting treatment specifically to you. This often takes the form of highly concentrated supplementation and is completely based on your unique physiology and barriers. In some cases of infertility, bioidentical hormones are also recommended.

4. Optimize the Gut – Once foundations are in place, and we’ve removed underlying barriers through targeted supplementation, we look at further optimizing the gut. The gut is the foundation of lasting health in the body and has far-reaching impacts on our reproductive health and immune health. Optimizing this system is a must in supporting successful implantation and conception.

5. Pregnancy Visits – Once you get pregnant, we create a new plan for you to carry forward throughout your pregnancy to ensure you successfully carry to term. Our goal at this point is that you’ve become such an expert in understanding your own body that you only need us for maintenance support at the beginning of each trimester!

If you’re struggling with fertility and want to learn more, we offer complimentary 15 minute consults with our chief Naturopathic Doctors focusing on fertility and reproductive health, Dr. Alessia Milano, ND, Dr. Kelly Clinning, ND, and Dr. Jessica Nazareth, ND.