About

I always wanted to have a family but I was a driven career girl and only met my fiancé when we were in our thirties. We were both workaholics and high achievers but we knew that having a family at the centre of our life was an absolute priority. 

Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out to be straight forward for us and as the months went on, the failure of every negative pregnancy test when everyone around us was having babies was devastating. We really feared whether we would ever be able to conceive and wondered if we had left it too late. One month, the miraculous two lines did emerge on the test! We were so elated and couldn’t believe it was really happening.

To be safe, we decided to scan early. All was well, a tiny beating heart was at work! But at week 10, the world came crashing down around our ears with the words ‘there’s no heartbeat’ and ‘baby has died’. No one can prepare you for how you will feel when you lose a pregnancy.  We were heartbroken and I really didn’t think we could get any lower.

A few months later, I sadly miscarried again, an earlier loss but loss just the same. In the UK, you aren’t entitled to any investigations until after a third miscarriage.  We didn’t know why this was happening to us and whether I would ever be able to carry a baby to term. We were rock bottom. I was afraid there was something wrong with me or that I was too old.  I felt completely lost.

The one area we hadn’t considered was nutrition and lifestyle. Were we doing the right things? I read and researched every day. We started to eat to optimise not only our overall health but also our reproductive health. We took a few targeted supplements following some blood tests. And we did a check-up on our lifestyle from exercise to bedtime routine to ensure we were giving ourselves the best chance.

To our total astonishment it worked!! I got pregnant and gave birth to healthy twin boys!  We were totally amazed and overjoyed that it had worked after all our previous pain.   

These days I’m so grateful to have two little boys in my life who call me mum. After they were born, I retrained to become qualified in nutritional therapy at the renowned Institute for Optimum Nutrition and since then I have completed many hours of continuous professional development specialising in fertility nutrition. I take a ‘functional medicine’ approach to supporting clients, focusing on the individual and their particular set of health needs.

My passion is to help women and couples like you to have your miracle babies too!