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conceiveplease™ Fertility App was created by leading Australian Fertility Specialist, Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, Dr Raewyn Teirney, who has helped countless couples achieve their dreams of having a baby.

The picture of who uses IVF in Australia has changed 🌈In 2024, female-male couples accounted for 80.9% of cycles. Single...
19/10/2026

The picture of who uses IVF in Australia has changed 🌈

In 2024, female-male couples accounted for 80.9% of cycles. Single women accounted for 14.4%. Female-female couples accounted for 4.6%.

Which means roughly one in five Australian IVF cycles is not a heteros*xual couple.

That number is worth saying plainly, because the assumption runs the other way. Clinic brochures, waiting room posters and most of the content written about fertility still picture two people, and it is easy to conclude that the system was built for them and you are the exception being accommodated.

The data says otherwise. Reciprocal IVF, where one partner provides the egg and the other carries the pregnancy, accounted for 955 recipient cycles in 2024. That is 25.2% of all oocyte and embryo recipient cycles. Surrogacy accounted for 370 cycles, with a 37.6% live birth rate from gestational carrier cycles.

Victoria's public fertility program explicitly includes LGBTIQA+ and single people.

None of this makes the path simple, and the legal and emotional parts are real. But you are not asking the system to make an exception for you. You are one of the one in five it already serves.

If you are building a family outside the traditional model, your GP can refer you in like anyone else 🧡

Nearly half of Australian fresh IVF cycles now transfer nothing at all ❄️Last week we looked at why fifteen eggs is not ...
18/10/2026

Nearly half of Australian fresh IVF cycles now transfer nothing at all ❄️

Last week we looked at why fifteen eggs is not fifteen chances. This is the other thing about a fresh cycle that people are often not prepared for.

It is called freeze-all, and it made up 44.5% of fresh cycles in 2024, up from 31.6% in 2020. Today 69.1% of all Australian transfers use frozen embryos.

The reason is outcomes. Frozen transfers produce a live birth 33.5% of the time, against 26.0% for fresh. After ovarian stimulation your hormone levels are far from natural, which can affect the uterine lining, and freezing lets everything settle before the embryo goes back.

What is less often explained is that your cycle may not end with a transfer at all. That is a genuinely hard thing to meet without warning, and worth knowing before you are in it.

Three in four Australian IVF babies are now born from frozen embryos. Ask your specialist why it is recommended in your case 🩺

When s*x becomes a schedule with a pass or fail result, something gets lost 🤍Start with the part that is genuinely reass...
17/10/2026

When s*x becomes a schedule with a pass or fail result, something gets lost 🤍

Start with the part that is genuinely reassuring, because it is also the part people are rarely told.

Cycle fecundity is similar whether couples have s*x daily, every other day, or every three days. S*x every two to three days across the cycle covers all bases. No calendar required, and no exact day to hit.

That matters because of what the precision costs. Timed in*******se is associated with reduced s*xual satisfaction and increased s*xual dysfunction in couples trying to conceive. Men can experience performance pressure and situational erectile difficulty on the named day, which is common and almost never discussed.

There is another one worth naming out loud. A discrepancy between partners in how much they want to conceive is itself linked to lower relationship and s*xual satisfaction. If one of you is further in than the other, that gap is doing damage quietly, and it does better said than managed alone.

One strategy clinicians actually use is to separate connection from conception deliberately. Not less s*x. Different s*x, with nothing riding on it.

None of this is about trying less hard. It is about not spending your relationship on a precision the evidence never asked for.

If this is affecting you, your GP can connect you with a counsellor who works with fertility 🧡

If you are booked for endometrioma surgery, have the fertility conversation before, not after 📅A prospective study follo...
16/10/2026

If you are booked for endometrioma surgery, have the fertility conversation before, not after 📅

A prospective study followed AMH levels after endometrioma removal. AMH fell a median of 38% in the six months after cystectomy, compared with 19% under watchful waiting and 8% in healthy controls.

Earlier literature reports around 30% after one-sided surgery, and up to 44% after bilateral. Researchers cannot yet say whether the decline is permanent.

None of this means surgery is the wrong decision. Pain matters. Anatomy matters. Plenty of people have the surgery, are glad they did, and go on to conceive. Recurrence is also real, at around 15.4% by five years, which is its own argument.

What it means is that this is a decision with a fertility cost attached, and the cost is easier to weigh before a date is set than after. Once the surgery has happened, the conversation about ovarian reserve becomes a conversation about what is left rather than what to trade.

If you have surgery scheduled, ask your specialist about ovarian reserve before the date 🧡

PCOS has a new name, and an Australian led the change 📢As of 12 May 2026, polycystic o***y syndrome is PMOS: Polyendocri...
15/10/2026

PCOS has a new name, and an Australian led the change 📢

As of 12 May 2026, polycystic o***y syndrome is PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome.

The change was led by Professor Helena Teede at Monash University, after 14 years of work, more than 50 patient and professional organisations, and around 22,000 survey responses.

The reason is straightforward. The old name reduced a complex, whole-body hormonal and metabolic condition to a misunderstanding about cysts that were never cysts. It named the least important part of what was going on, and then that name shaped how it was explained to everyone who had it.

There is a three-year transition, with full implementation in the 2028 international guideline, so you will see both names in use for a while yet. They refer to the same condition, and nothing about your diagnosis has changed.

If you have questions about what this means for you, your GP can talk you through it 🧡

Australia now has a free egg freezing calculator, built on national data 🔢If you have looked into egg freezing, you will...
14/10/2026

Australia now has a free egg freezing calculator, built on national data 🔢

If you have looked into egg freezing, you will have found that most of the numbers available to you come from the clinics selling it. That is not necessarily misleading, but it is a single clinic's experience, presented by the party with an interest in the answer.

This is different. YourEggFreezeEstimator launched in March 2026, built by UNSW's National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit. It uses ANZARD data from every Australian IVF clinic, not one clinic's figures.

It gives a personalised estimate of how many eggs you could expect to retrieve, and your chance of a live birth from them.

Two things worth knowing about how much that matters. Its sibling tool, the IVF Estimator, received a 91% trustworthiness rating from the people who used it. And one in five of them changed their treatment timing afterwards.

That is the point of independent data. It is not that the clinics are wrong. It is that a number you can check yourself, before anyone has quoted you a price, changes what you walk into the room knowing.

You can find it at yourivfsuccess.com.au. Use it before your first consultation rather than after, then discuss what it gives you with a fertility specialist 🩺

Testosterone is male contraception with extra steps, and that is not a figure of speech ⚠️This is the last part of the s...
14/10/2026

Testosterone is male contraception with extra steps, and that is not a figure of speech ⚠️

This is the last part of the series on the half of infertility that rarely gets investigated first.

Australia's 2025 male infertility guidelines carry a mandatory recommendation: do not prescribe testosterone for men with current or imminent reproductive intent. Exogenous testosterone suppresses the brain's signal to the te**es, which shuts down s***m production and can cause azoos***mia, meaning zero s***m. Recovery is slow, depends on age and duration of use, and is not always complete.

The part that catches people out is that more than 1 in 20 Australian supplements contain undeclared androgenic steroids. A man can suppress his own fertility without knowing he took anything.

It is worth raising for the same reason the whole series exists. This is a cause with a known mechanism and a clear next step, and it is cheap to rule out.

If he is on TRT or taking gym supplements and you are planning a pregnancy, see your GP now rather than later 🩺

Half of Australian women diagnosed with endometriosis are prescribed opioids. One in ten is prescribed a Mirena 📊The fig...
13/10/2026

Half of Australian women diagnosed with endometriosis are prescribed opioids. One in ten is prescribed a Mirena 📊

The figures come from a study of 19,786 Australian women diagnosed in general practice, drawing on data from 660 GPs across roughly 2,700 clinics between 2011 and 2021.

After diagnosis, opioids were prescribed to 49.5%. Levonorgestrel IUDs went to 10.0%.

So nearly half receive pain relief, and one in ten receives the device with the strongest evidence base behind it. Those are not the same intervention. One manages the experience of the condition; the other acts on it.

Over the same decade, diagnoses rose 60%, with a 230% increase among women aged 20 to 24. Median age at diagnosis was 32.

This is not about blaming GPs, who are working inside a system with real constraints on time, access and specialist referral. It is about knowing that a wider set of options exists, because you cannot ask for something you have never been told about.

If your pain is being managed with medication alone, it is reasonable to ask your GP what else is available 🧡

Fifteen eggs is not fifteen chances 🔬Last fortnight we walked through the six weeks of an IVF cycle. This is the part of...
13/10/2026

Fifteen eggs is not fifteen chances 🔬

Last fortnight we walked through the six weeks of an IVF cycle. This is the part of it that catches people hardest, because it happens over a week of phone calls.

Every cycle is a funnel and each stage loses some. Not every egg collected is mature enough to use. Of those retrieved, roughly 53 to 58% fertilise. Not every fertilised egg reaches day 5 blastocyst, and not every blastocyst is chromosomally normal.

Which is why even in Australia in 2024, transfers using genetically tested embryos produced a live birth 44.0% of the time.

Understanding the funnel is what makes every other number make sense. A count that shrinks each day is not a sign something has gone wrong. It is the process behaving exactly as it does for everyone.

Individual variation around these averages is enormous. Ask your fertility specialist to explain your own figures 🩺

Just relax and it will happen. Why that is not just annoying, but wrong 💬The premise does not hold. Stress has not been ...
10/10/2026

Just relax and it will happen. Why that is not just annoying, but wrong 💬

The premise does not hold. Stress has not been shown to cause infertility or to reduce IVF success. So the advice is not merely unhelpful — it is built on something that is not true.

That matters more than it sounds. If stress caused infertility, then not conceiving would be a failure of composure, and every difficult month would be evidence against you. That is the logic the phrase quietly hands over, even when it is offered with complete kindness. Especially then.

Fertility specialists have been direct about this: comments like it trivialise the situation and place unnecessary blame. It adds guilt to grief, on a false premise.

If you are the one saying it, there are better options and they are shorter. That sounds really hard, I am sorry. Do you want to talk about it, or do you want a distraction? Or simply: I do not know what to say, but I am here.

And if you are the one hearing it, you are allowed to say it does not help. You do not owe anyone a gracious response to advice that was wrong before it reached you.

If this is weighing on you, your GP can connect you with fertility-specific counselling 🧡

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