L.R. Reproductive Psychology

L.R. Reproductive Psychology Psychologist, Speaker & Trainer
Helping everyone do better in supporting theirs and others reproductive mental health

Infertility and its respective treatment can end up being such a confusing space to be in.Information on supplements, ad...
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.

Given it Infertility Awareness Month, let's talk donor recruitment.Last week on ABCs Gruen, they unpacked a national cli...
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 heteros*xual 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?

Infertility impacts 1 in 6Infertility impacts womenInfertility impacts menInfertility impacts singlesInfertility impacts...
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 heteros*xuals

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, heteros*xual, 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.

I am so incredibly excited to be heading to in London in a few weeks time.The pinnacle of fertility conferences in my f...
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.

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 ...
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!

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

Today is Internationals Bereaved Mother's Day. A day where we acknowledge not every woman who identifies as a mother has...
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.

Donor Conception is becoming an increasingly common as we see more solo women and men, same s*x couples and also heteros...
27/04/2026

Donor Conception is becoming an increasingly common as we see more solo women and men, same s*x couples and also heteros*xual couples need donor gametes or embryos to grow their families.

Donor conception, often hits the news because of the negatives aspects - mix ups, unethical medical professionals, no consideration for the number of families from one donor, and what can only be labelled as rogue donors donating for realistically what is their own egos being pumped up and not in the recipient family or child's interests.

However, and more importantly, donor conception should be celebrated, and particularly when someone donates with true altruism, with the interests of a child who will be born through it at the heart of their decisions.

Without these men, women and couples who donate s***m, eggs and embryos to others there are many families who would not be here, hugs that would not be recieved, conversations about the richness of what family means, what kin and connection is, and how love and genetics come together in many different ways to build family.

So this Donor Conception Awareness Day, let's celebrate all the families who are here with rich stories of love, altruism and kin outside the tradition family. Families come in so many forms, and they make our world richer and a better place for it.

If you want to learn more about donor conception, I have tagged some accounts who openly talk about building families through donor conception, and how we can do this ethically, honestly and in the best interests of the children born.

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