FERTILITY
If you are looking for more information about how nutrition can optimise your fertility, the seed clinic is here to support you. Tailored advice is available depending on if you’re in the early stages of family planning, currently trying to conceive with or without assisted conception or if you know you may want to have a baby one day and want to learn more about the relationship between food and fertility.
Science shows that eating patterns and other preconception behaviors can influence your fertility. Green vegetables, herbs, spices, olive oil, fish and seafood are just some of foods that can impact ovulation, menstrual cycles, the uterine environment and more, whereas when these parameters are out of balance, they may influence your chance of getting and staying pregnant. Just as an example, a fertility supportive diet has been shown in scientific studies to increase the probability of pregnancy through IVF by an incredible 40%.
Your preconception diet & lifestyle is also really important if you do become pregnant because these behaviours can influence your unborn baby’s genetics, your pregnancy experience and how you recover postnatally. Simple changes can have a real impact.
A consultation with the seed clinic will equip you with the expert knowledge, practical tools and support you need to navigate your fertility journey so that you feel calm, confident and perhaps most importantly, in control.
What’s included:
60-minute video consultation with Ella to review your current eating & lifestyle behaviors
Supporting nutrition guides with more information and tools
Personal action plan
Follow up consultations are available as needed and once a follow-up has been booked, on-demand support will be available to you via Whatsapp between appointments.
the seed clinic approach:
Ella will review your nutrition & lifestyle behaviors to consider supportive eating patterns, supplement regimens and lifestyle changes (sleep, stress, movement, environmental toxins, etc) that science shows have the potential to enhance your chances of conception. All advice is centered around non-restrictive eating principles where you will find out how to incorporate more nutritious foods versus cutting out food groups (sugar, dairy, etc). You will also receive detailed information about how different foods in the diet, including fruits, veg, wholegrains, protein and bioactives can influence fertility, so you feel informed and empowered to continue your journey.
Take back some of the control when often many factors can feel so out of your control
Learn how to give any future pregnancy a great nutritional start in life
Discover self care strategies that can help you feel calm and stop you feeling overwhelmed
A listening ear to bring some light, hope and support wherever you are on your journey
MEET ELLA
Ella Pomfret is a Registered Dietitian, perinatal nutritionist & the creator of the seed clinic. She is a trusted expert in fertility and pre and postnatal nutrition and passionate about helping women use food, supplements and self care to positively influence their path to parenthood. She offers unhurried time and reliable advice ensuring those starting a family feel knowledgeable about nutrition, in control and confident.
Areas of fertility covered include:
PCOS
Endometreosis
Low ovarian reserve
Unexplained infertility
Egg quality
Implantation / the two-week wait
IVF and other ART
General TTC
TTC at an older age
TTC in a bigger or smaller body
Menstrual cycle, hormone balance & ovulatory support
TTC with disordered eating
Preparation to sustain a healthy pregnancy
General advice if planning to conceive one day in the future
Donor egg conception & surrogacy
Miscarriage
Egg freezing
why the seed clinic:
the seed clinic helps women harness the power of nutrition for fertility, pregnancy & postpartum, thereby supporting them to get pregnant and have healthier outcomes for them and their babies.
There is a wealth of reliable evidence from scientific research that shows nutrition can positively influence pre and postnatal health. The first 1,000 days are a critical period of child development, referring to the time from preconception through to around two years of age. Nutrition has a major role to play in brain development, genetic programming and improving long term health for the mother and her baby but advice about how food, supplements and self care can be used as a tool is not reaching the women who need it. The seed clinic is on a mission to close this gap.