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L.R. Reproductive Psychology

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L.R. Reproductive Psychology

Psychologist, Speaker & Trainer
Helping everyone do better in supporting theirs and others reproductive mental health

11/06/2026

Its currently Infant Mental Health Week, with the theme this year of Attunement.

Tonight I attended the local Mental Health Professionals Network, Perinatal Group evening, and had the pleasure of listening to Bronwyn Leigh Centre for Perinatal Psych and Chris Barnes presenting on attunement in the first 12 months.

Attunement, is such an amazing experience between care givers and babies, enriching babies understanding of emotions, their self in the world, and their relationships with their care givers.

From the smiles, chats, empathetic faces, cuddles, touch, kisses and tickles, we deepen our and our babies worlds.

Do we always get it right? Nope.

But this is the wonderful thing about human interaction, while positive connection is brilliant, there is space to repair when we miss the mark or "rupture" the interaction.

What are the moments of attunement you have noticed with your little one?

Big thanks to Bronwyn and Chris for your time this evening.

10/06/2026

The confronting truth we dont talk about anywhere near enough in the world of infertility and fertility treatments,

IVF does not always lead to the baby we so strongly desire and wish for.

IVF, is perceived as something you "just do" and it leads to the much wanted baby. Sadly for many people who are navigating infertility, for the many and varied reasons, won't end treatment without a baby.

The reasons for ceasing treatment and not having a baby vary from financial, psychological impact, medical, time, and not wanting to navigate donor conception.

Ceasing treatment without the much wanted baby is not "giving up" its making a choice. A choice to protect hearts, minds, relationships, finances and ultimately ourselves. Its not selfish, but it may just be self preservation for many, and absolute heartbreak and grief for all.

Talking about not having a baby through IVF, or any other fertility treatment, is not spoken about enough, but it is the reality for many.

By being honest, transparent, compassionate and realistic in the true chances of fertility treatments leading to a baby, we lead people to navigate treatments in a more effective way and feeling more empowered to make decisions about when to stop and move down a path they hadn't envisaged but that does become amazing, in a different way.

Have you stopped treatment without a much wanted baby? Or think this might be you?

Did you know there are many people out there talking openly about a life of Childless not be choice?

I have tagged some of the wonderful people I know advocating in this space, but if you know of another, please tag them in the comments.

05/06/2026

Infertility and its respective treatment can end up being such a confusing space to be in.

Information on supplements, add-ons, juices, foods, diets, not diets, adjunctive therapies and that's before we start hearing about the actual treatments that can help! This world is confusing and overwhelming, making it feel impossible to pull apart the fact from the fiction!

Which is where a book like The Lucky Egg written by .sekhon a reproductive endocrinologist can become an invaluable resource. One of the few books on the market, written by a doctor who specialises and actively works in fertility diagnosis and treatment.

Covering off what fertility is, what infertility is, different aspects and treatment formats, and importantly what you can do, and what truthfully might be beneficial (rather than just snake oil interventions!)

I loved (and I'll call my bias!) that space was held for the person navigating treatment, how to consider and care for your mental health and wellbeing while going through treatment.

What I would have liked to see more of, would have been more on male factor fertility and the male perspective of treatment, and also what happens if treatment doesn't lead to the much wanted baby.

If you are starting out in fertility treatments, or feeling stuck where you are at, its definitely worth the read.

03/06/2026

Given it Infertility Awareness Month, let's talk donor recruitment.

Last week on ABCs Gruen, they unpacked a national clinics cureent advertising campaign to recruit new s***m donors. Frankly, rhe campaign is gross, with juvenile humour, and little discussion of the impact of what becoming a donor means.

The panel did a pretty good job of unpacking alternative ways of advertising, with a consistent reflection - the advertising missed the mark.

In an era where we are championing increase in known donation, stopping "anonymous" donation (which doesn't actually exist any longer due to home DNA kits), they keep pushing these immature lines of recruitment.

Single women are the fastest growing population accessing IVF, and of course donors, but LGBTQI+ and heterosexual couples will also need to access donors - s***m, egg or embryos for a variety of reasons.

Yes we need more donors, but we also need to recruit them from the beginning with the understanding of no longer having a right to anonymity, but rather the right of the child concieved to access information and contact them in the future if they so desire.

I'd love to see more transparency AND humanity, holding the future child in the recruitment process of donors.

While the segment is not perfect (it is a comedy show), it highlights the current limitations in donor advertising and is worth the watch in full. It provides an opportunity for discussion and for the Fertility clinics to do a lot better when recruiting donors.

Let's actually let people know WHY we need donor, use truth, use transparency, use humanity. And most importantly, let's stop kidding and joking around about a topic which has serious implications both for people who can consent, and those concieved who actually didn't and couldn't.

If you have used, need to use, are considering using a donor. Or if you have made the decision to donate, how would you like to see advertising change?

If you are in the broader fertility world, what would you like to see change?

02/06/2026

Infertility impacts 1 in 6

Infertility impacts women

Infertility impacts men

Infertility impacts singles

Infertility impacts couples

Infertility impacts LGBTQI+

Infertility impacts heterosexuals

Infertility impacts white people

Infertility impacts black people

Infertility impacts poor people

Infertility impacts rich people

However, HOW Infertility impacts people and HOW people can make attempts to overcome Infertility varies widely and with significant biases and discrimination.

If you are white, heterosexual, coupled and well off, youre more likely to be able to access treatments compared to being poor, of colour, single or LGBTQI.

It shouldn't be like this, we should all have the right to be able to access treatment to try to overcome infertility, and build our families.

Is the science perfect? No

Will everyone who engages in fertility treatment end with a bay? No

Should we all have the equity and equality to access treatments? Yes

June is International Infertility Awareness Month, let's get loud about what Infertility means, and what equity and equality in access to care looks like.

16/05/2026

I am so incredibly excited to be heading to in London in a few weeks time.

The pinnacle of fertility conferences in my favourite city in the world - what could be better?

Truthfully, whats better is not only this opportunity to attend, but the opportunity to meet some amazing people who I have been connected with across social media in person!

We often forget, when we spend enough time chatting with people through DMs, that the relationships, fall under a parasocial link, rather than interpersonal connections.

Attending this year, not only affords me the ability to meet and but to see both of them present on their recent survey through

Other people im hoping I will have the opportunity to meet in the real are Julianne from (who I have actually been in the same room as before, but didn't meet her!) As well as and hopefully a chance to see again too!

The opportunity to learn more about infertility, fertility interventions on a world stage, as well as meeting so many of these on-line connections, as well as potentially others, its honestly, such a privilege.

06/05/2026

These 3 arrived in the mail this week, all the way from America, to my corner of Australia, and I can't wait to sink my teeth into them all.

These three female doctors, are spectacular in their advocacy, work, and education in reproductive health and health care.

To see books in the world written by female doctors who are so incredibly passionate about lifting up and supporting women through their reproductive years, what ever that pathway has entailed, is truly the best thing we can ask for.

If youre looking for solid, truthful, and scientific information please follow all of these women.

If their accounts are anything to go by, these books are going to be next level, and I can't wait to report back!

04/05/2026

Termination For Medical Reasons, or TFMR, is a space of baby loss we dont talk about enough.

TFMR continues to be misunderstood, downplayed, shamed and ignored.

For families who have experienced a scan or a NIPT which has shown significant medical issues for their baby, throws them into a space of chaos, heartache and uncertainty.

To have to navigate a pregnancy, where a baby is unwell, to be faced with a choice, which is not truly a choice, to terminate a much wanted, desired and lived baby, despite the want for another family member, is life shattering and grief enduring.

The more we talk about TFMR the more we understand this space of loss, and give the families the space to grieve their loss and their child.

03/05/2026

Today is Internationals Bereaved Mother's Day. A day where we acknowledge not every woman who identifies as a mother has all or any of their children with them.

Motherhood starts from the moment we make a decision to try to have a baby, and crystallises the moment we see two pink lines, or receive a call from our doctors office letting us know we are pregnant.

Loss, at any gestation, shatters the physicality of motherhood, but it doesn't dampen the psychological state of motherhood.

Today, we acknowledge every mother who the world doesn't see, due to the lack of the physical presence of a child. You are no less a mother because of your loss.

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