Starting a family couldn’t be further from my mind at the moment, my current world wouldn’t allow the time and dedication to raise a little person. But we have to talk about fertility, and I believe modern women aren’t having this conversation enough! 

It only seems fitting that for my first post that I introduce myself and let you know what this space is all about. I am a Dietitian based in little old New Zealand, who has a passion for working with and for women.

Ladies with Endometriosis, this one is in honour of YOU. Too many women with endo have sat in a consultation with me, and have felt that they have had to fight and claw their way through the health system to finally get their diagnosis and the treatment they are intituled to. 

How many of you know how the pill works? That it switches off hormones and why that should matter to you? I first went on the pill at 15 years of age, it was given to me by the school nurse, and it wasn’t until I was in my early twenties that I switched to a non-hormonal birth control method (more about that another time).