Thrive Fertility Australia

Thrive Fertility Australia Reproductive medicine specialists from planning to conceive, through fertility treatment & pregnancy.

Day five, and the last of Women’s Health Week: to connect.Fertility should never be one partner’s homework. It’s very co...
11/09/2026

Day five, and the last of Women’s Health Week: to connect.

Fertility should never be one partner’s homework. It’s very common for one person to hold the appointments, the forms, the tracking, the decisions, and most of the emotional weight. Sharing those out is a concrete act of connection, not admin.

With friends and family, the people who help most are usually the ones who listen. Telling one or two trusted people what’s actually happening shrinks the isolation more than almost anything else.

Your care team should be connected too: GP, fertility specialist, counsellor, allied health. One plan, with you at the center rather than in the middle. Our collaborative care case study shows what that looks like in practice.

That’s the week. Thank you for following along, and for doing it anyway.

Read the blog: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/do-it-anyway-small-steps-towards-preconception-health/

Women’s Health Week is an initiative of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health

'Just relax.' Two words, so much weight. R U OK? Day feels like the right moment to say what we tell patients every day:...
10/09/2026

'Just relax.' Two words, so much weight.

R U OK? Day feels like the right moment to say what we tell patients every day: distress is so often the result of fertility difficulty, not the cause of it. You're not failing at 'calming down', you're going through something genuinely hard.

Swipe through for a few small, practical ways to protect your headspace while you're in it, and a reminder that support shouldn't be something you only reach for in a crisis.

At Thrive, counselling is built into how we care for patients, not an afterthought. If someone in your life is in the thick of a fertility journey, today's a good day to check in. Not with advice, just with the question.

Read the blog: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/do-it-anyway-small-steps-towards-preconception-health/

Jean Hailes for Women's Health

Day three of Women’s Health Week: to rest. The preconception factor nobody talks about.Sleep matters for hormonal regula...
08/09/2026

Day three of Women’s Health Week: to rest. The preconception factor nobody talks about.

Sleep matters for hormonal regulation and general health, and poor sleep drags on everything else: mood, appetite, weight, and the energy for every other habit.
Work shifts? Telling you to get eight hours a night isn’t useful advice. Shift work makes consistent sleep hard. That is a constraint to work within, not a personal failing.

What helps: treat your sleep window as a fixed appointment and protect it. Keep your routine as consistent as the roster allows. Dark, cool, quiet, phone out of reach. And watch caffeine in the back half of a shift, it is still in your system at bedtime.

Perfect sleep is not available to everyone. Protecting the sleep that is available to you is a small step in exactly the spirit of this week.

Read the new blog: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/do-it-anyway-small-steps-towards-preconception-health/

Women’s Health Week is an initiative of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health.

Jean Hailes for Women's Health

Day two of Women’s Health Week: To Move.Regular beats heroic. The exercise that helps is the kind you’ll still be doing ...
08/09/2026

Day two of Women’s Health Week: To Move.

Regular beats heroic. The exercise that helps is the kind you’ll still be doing in three months. Walking, swimming, cycling and strength work all count.

Starting from very little? A daily walk is a perfectly respectable beginning. And don’t launch a punishing new program the month you start trying, those tend to collapse and take morale with them.

If you’re in treatment, moving doesn’t have to stop. During stimulation your ovaries become enlarged, so high-impact and high-intensity exercise is usually eased back, particularly close to egg collection. Your nurses will guide you on timing. It means adjusting, not stopping altogether.

One signal worth taking seriously: a period that becomes irregular or stops with heavy training isn’t a badge of fitness. Mention it to your GP or specialist.

Read the new blog: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/do-it-anyway-small-steps-towards-preconception-health/

Women’s Health Week is an initiative of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health

It’s Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week, and this year’s theme is 'Do It Anyway.'Even when life feels busy, messy, or imper...
07/09/2026

It’s Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week, and this year’s theme is 'Do It Anyway.'

Even when life feels busy, messy, or imperfect, small steps toward your health still count. That's how we approach preparing for pregnancy, not as something you get right all at once, but as small, steady progress, every single day.

Today’s theme is 'To Fuel'. Preparing your body isn’t just about folic acid. A good rule of thumb is folate, iodine, and food. Swapping most sugary drinks for water, cooking at home more often than not, and keeping alcohol modest, for both partners, supports your overall and reproductive health. A varied, balanced diet beats a 'perfect' one.

Our new article is live today, with one small step for each day of the week.

Read the new blog: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/do-it-anyway-small-steps-towards-preconception-health/

Women’s Health Week is an initiative of Jean Hailes for Women’s Health.
Jean Hailes for Women's Health

How long is too long to wait?As a rule of thumb: if you've been trying to conceive for 12 months without success, it's w...
04/09/2026

How long is too long to wait?

As a rule of thumb: if you've been trying to conceive for 12 months without success, it's worth being investigated. If the female partner is over 35, or there are known risk factors on either side, don't wait past six months.

And when you are checked: both partners, in parallel, from the beginning. It doesn't slow anything down. Testing both partners at once means nothing waits on one result.

That's the message of our male fertility series, drawn from Dr Sascha Edelstein's article Half the Picture: male fertility is worth assessing early, properly, and without embarrassment.

This week our Scientific Director Dr Lisa Lee looked at the laboratory side, how s***m are selected for IVF, and why a more advanced technique doesn't automatically mean a better result. Her closing point is the one that matters most here: sometimes the most important work happens before the laboratory.

Read Dr Lisa Lee's article here: https://www.thrivefertility.com.au/news/icsi-picsi-zymot-s***m-selection-ivf/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=half-the-picture

Choosing the best s***m. It's one of the quietest, most precise parts of IVF, and it happens entirely in the lab.In her ...
02/09/2026

Choosing the best s***m. It's one of the quietest, most precise parts of IVF, and it happens entirely in the lab.

In her new article, our Scientific Director Dr Lisa Lee explains how embryologists prepare and select s***m for fertilisation, what ICSI, PICSI and Zymot actually are, who may benefit, and an honest word you won't often hear: a more advanced technique doesn't automatically mean a better result.

The right technique is the one that fits your circumstances, chosen with your care team and guided by the evidence.

More in Dr Lisa Lee's blog: https://www.thrivefertility.com.au/news/icsi-picsi-zymot-s***m-selection-ivf/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=half-the-picture

He got the all-clear. So why isn’t it happening?It’s one of the most common questions in fertility medicine, and it dese...
25/08/2026

He got the all-clear. So why isn’t it happening?

It’s one of the most common questions in fertility medicine, and it deserves a careful answer.

A semen analysis is a useful screen, but it has real limitations. The reference values, like a s***m concentration of 16 million per millilitre, aren’t a pass or fail line. They’re thresholds drawn from men who conceived, not a guarantee either way. A man with normal numbers can still have a fertility issue, and a man with figures below the reference range can still father a child naturally. A standard analysis also can’t tell us how well s***m actually function, or the integrity of their DNA.

That’s why a proper assessment looks further: a careful history, a physical examination, and where needed hormone tests, genetic testing, and imaging. The analysis tells us about the sample. The rest tells us about the man.

More in Dr Sascha Edelstein’s blog, Half the Picture: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/half-the-picture-understanding-male-factor-infertility/

Half. That’s how many infertility cases involve a male factor. Yet it’s the half that historically went unexamined.Infer...
21/08/2026

Half. That’s how many infertility cases involve a male factor. Yet it’s the half that historically went unexamined.

Infertility affects around 1 in 6 couples. When it does, a male factor is involved in up to half of all cases and is the sole cause in roughly 20 to 30 percent.

That’s not a footnote. It’s half the picture. And Australia’s new male infertility guidelines now recommend assessing both partners from the start.

In his latest article, Dr Sascha Edelstein looks at why that’s changing, what a proper male fertility assessment involves, and why both partners deserve answers from the beginning.

Read the full story here: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/half-the-picture-understanding-male-factor-infertility/

Conception takes two people. So, it has always struck us as odd that, historically, fertility medicine investigated one....
19/08/2026

Conception takes two people. So, it has always struck us as odd that, historically, fertility medicine investigated one.

Dr Sascha Edelstein’s new article, Half the Picture, is about the other half: why a male factor is involved in up to half of all infertility cases, what a proper male fertility assessment actually involves, and why a “normal” semen analysis isn’t the whole story.

It also looks at Australia’s new male infertility guidelines, the first ever written for Australian care, and what they mean for couples: both partners assessed from the start, in parallel. It doesn’t slow anything down. It often shortens the whole journey.

Read the Half the Picture blog via our website: https://thrivefertility.com.au/news/half-the-picture-understanding-male-factor-infertility/

Address

Unit 12-14, 2nd Floor Northern Private Hospital
Melbourne, VIC
3076

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+61391243896

Website

,

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Thrive Fertility Australia posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Category