Mel Kovacevic, founder of The Seed Cycle is a Functional Nutrition and EFT Practitioner. With her expertise in functional nutrition, intuitive eating practices, and EFT Tapping, Mel has helped her clients overcome limiting beliefs and heal their relationship with food and their bodies. Her current focus is on helping women restore hormone health using food as medicine.

Meet Abigail.

She’s a 26 year old Healthcare Staffing Professional that lives in Georgia, USA. She enjoys literature, nature, animal rescue, and spending time with her beloved pets.

Abigail has been married for 1 1/2 years, and together she and her partner have spent the last 14 months trying to conceive their first child. Her recent double diagnoses of Endometriosis and PCOS have turned her world upside down but she says she is finding so much comfort in this new community and is working towards finding inner peace during life’s challenges.

Preparing for a subsequent pregnancy is a whole different ball game compared to first time around. In this episode I’m talking about why your cycles are different after having a baby, breastfeeding and the return of your fertility and how to navigate post-partum depletion.

Meet Jess. She’s a post-partum doula from Melbourne, providing much-needed support for new mums. She’s a mum of one herself, but has been struggling to conceive baby #2 for over 2 years. Despite her struggles to conceive, she loves working with new mums and their babies and says this gives her hope! She’s passionate about holistic health and supporting her body to optimise her natural fertility and she shares about how she and her partner explored all possible conservative options before seeking assistance. 

Ever heard that low AMH levels mean you’ll never get pregnant naturally? Quality over quantity. Always. 

In this podcast episode, we’re talking about why AMH levels may be a reliable indicator of your ovarian reserve, but they give no insight into the quality of those remaining eggs.

You finally feel like you’ve figured out fertile mucus and ovulation, but you’re still not getting pregnant! In this podcast episode, we’re talking about the 3 key reasons why your cycle may not be fertile and 3 easy ways to fix it.

Ok! I am calling it. It is time we all stop using the word infertility to describe fertility struggles.
I work with and speak with so many women who have been trying to conceive with zero success. But these women are not necessarily “infertile”.
While 1 in 6 couples may struggle to conceive, 1 in 6 couples are NOT infertile.

More often than not when we think about fertility, we immediately start thinking about women. Yes, we are the ones who have menstrual cycles and get pregnant and grow babies, but if it wasn’t for male sperm pregnancy would never be possible. And if a couple is struggling to conceive, it’s about an even 50-50 split about whether it is a male or female cause.

In this episode, we’re talking about what makes up an individual sperm cell; how the male reproductive system works to maximise chances of fertilising a female egg and we’re also talking about sperm count – how this is actually measured, how it’s changed over the past 100 years and some advice for couples who are trying to conceive with potentially low sperm counts.

We all know that ovulation occurs about halfway through your menstrual cycle. Definitely not always on day 14 as we have been led to believe, but somewhere around the middle. Right?

But what if your cycle is 40 days long? Or 50 or 60?

Well, if your cycle is irregular or on the longer side, there’s a good chance your body has attempted to ovulate once or twice before it actually released an egg. And sometimes, it’s just all too hard and it gives up and decides to try again next month.

This is called anovulation, and it happens more commonly than you might think.

If you’ve been listening to me rabbit on about mucus for any length of time now, then you would know that I see it as the number one indicator of your fertility.

The key to understanding when you are fertile or not fertile relies on you being able to track the changes in your cervical mucus throughout your menstrual cycle. So what you see and feel is everything when it comes to identifying your fertile window.

In this episode, we’re talking about your mucus plug. What the hell is it and why is it so important in determining whether or not you are fertile?