We believe that bodies and minds thrive when given the right ingredients. We are dedicated to boosting our community wellbeing and this is why our brilliant practitioners are offering free 10 minute health consults with our naturopaths and nutritionists. These sessions are designed to help anyone wanting preventative wellness strategies for immunity, symptomatic relief for…
20/10/2021 Read More >>
Welcome to MA’s October 2021 Love Letter. We’ve been receiving MA’s monthly love letters from The Melbourne Apothecary since the beginning of 2020. These letters contain links to a variety of life enhancing freebies that our fabulous practitioners are constantly creating to help you cope during COVID and beyond. The letters are also a fantastic…
06/10/2021 Read More >>
An exciting opportunity for an experienced acupuncturist / Chinese herbal medicine practitioner to join our Fertile Ground Health Group Acupuncture team is now available. Are you our new Acupuncturist? Fertile Ground Health Group practitioners are leaders in their respective professions for IVF support, fertility and pregnancy related treatments and are well respected among medical specialists…
30/09/2021 Read More >>
Let’s talk about the top ten fertility enhancing foods. Of course, there are a number of foods that are great for fertility and health, however there are some that are indeed more super than others. Getting the basics of healthy heating right is the most important step. From there you can integrate some nutrient dense…
29/09/2021 Read More >>
Your body undergoes many changes as you grow a new person inside of you, and there are many benefits of massage during pregnancy to help you through this time. Some of the changes you experience can be stressful and uncomfortable, such as stress, fatigue and muscular discomfort. Regular massage treatment during the pregnancy can help…
15/09/2021 Read More >>
This is your opportunity to join our reception team at Fertile Ground and The Melbourne Apothecary. We are now opening up applications and feel excited to interview the right candidate/s. This is a reception role with a difference. You are a highly valued member of our team and your role is considered crucial to the…
01/09/2021 Read More >>
These Peanut butter protein balls would have to be one of my all time favourite snacks (originated from a Sam Woods 28 recipe). In the original recipe it suggests rice malt syrup, however I find it tastes great without it. The combination of the peanut butter, protein powder and raspberries are delicious and such a…
16/08/2021 Read More >>
Welcome to MA’s August 2021 Love Letter. We’ve been receiving MA’s monthly love letters from The Melbourne Apothecary since the beginning of 2020. These letters contain links to a variety of life enhancing freebies that our fabulous practitioners are constantly creating to help you cope during COVID and beyond. The letters are also a fantastic…
16/08/2021 Read More >>
Exercise during pregnancy should be done and is safe in a healthy, uncomplicated pregnancy. In fact, performing the recommended type and amount of physical activity during pregnancy achieves health benefits for mother and baby including reduced risk of pre-eclampsia, pregnancy induced hypertension, a reduction in instrumental delivery and unplanned caesarean section birth and may help to reduce…
03/08/2021 Read More >>
We have yet another exciting launch to share with you – Charmaine and Gina’s Be Fertile guided meditation project tracks have just become available on Spotify! The Be Fertile meditation series has been a love project for these two wonderful leaders at Fertile Ground over the last decade. They have created and added to the series…
29/07/2021 Read More >>
Counselling for Fertility is an important aspect to consider for your Fertility journey. When fertility plans are interrupted or delayed it can cause great distress with feelings of helplessness and eventually hopelessness. My clients often decide that it just shouldn’t be this hard and maybe it is their fate to be childless. An incredibly painful…
19/07/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and are you considering IVF? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Below you’ll find Part 6 – “Your Guide to IVF” If you’ve already read articles 1 to 5 feel welcome to…
14/07/2021 Read More >>
Welcome to MA’s July 2021 Love Letter. We’ve been receiving MA’s monthly love letters from The Melbourne Apothecary since the beginning of 2020. These letters contain links to a variety of life enhancing freebies that our fabulous practitioners are constantly creating to help you cope during COVID and beyond. The letters are also a fantastic…
08/07/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and do you qualify for IUI? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Below you’ll find Part 5 – “What is IUI & do you Qualify?” If you’ve already read articles…
05/07/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and is egg freezing for you? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Below you’ll find Part 4 – “Is Egg Freezing for You?” If you’ve already read article 1, 2…
21/06/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and and how do you enhance your fertility naturally? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Below you’ll find Part 3 – “Enhance your Fertility Naturally”. If you’ve already read article…
16/06/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and do you need preconception screening? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Below you’ll find Part 2 – “Do You Need Preconception Screening?” If you’ve already read article 1 feel…
10/06/2021 Read More >>
We’ve been receiving MA’s monthly love letters from The Melbourne Apothecary since the beginning of 2020. These letters contain links to a variety of life enhancing freebies that our fabulous practitioners are constantly creating to help you cope during COVID and beyond. The letters are also a fantastic and charismatic resource that share all the…
03/06/2021 Read More >>
What’s your Fertility Plan and do you know how to identify your unique fertility needs? Welcome to this free 6-part article series designed to help you determine your fertility plan and understand the steps you can take to optimise your fertility outcomes. Over these 6 weeks we are going to discuss all potential options for…
25/05/2021 Read More >> This is your opportunity to join our renowned and wonderful team at Fertile Ground Health Group and The Melbourne Apothecary in a Practice Management role. We are ready for applications and feel excited to interview the right candidate/s. About the role We are currently seeking an experienced, customer focused Practice Manager to work closely alongside…
14/05/2021 Read More >>
Fertility massage is for you – whether you are trying to conceive naturally or planning a medically assisted cycle (Clomid, IUI, IVF, ICSI). In a one hour treatment, your practitioner will relieve any stress or tension in your shoulders and upper back and give important focus to your lower back, sacrum, pelvic areas and hip…
26/04/2021 Read More >>
Food cravings come in all tastes and sizes. Have you ever walked past a bakery early in the morning and spied the rows of croissants in the window and found yourself thinking about nothing else but those buttery flaky pastries for rest of the day?? Or perhaps you’ve arrived at the end of a busy…
22/04/2021 Read More >>
What to do when the desire to have a baby collides with fertility’s end (menopause)? Thinking about a good time to have a baby may be considered good family planning, but what happens when reproductive circumstances dictate how and when this time needs to be? Never more so than when we enter into our midlife…
22/04/2021 Read More >>
How to look after yourself in Autumn According to Eastern medicine, Autumn is the driest season. What can you do to support yourself during this transitional time and the impacts that this shift has on your system? You might notice that your skin can start to feel dry and itchy, your mind unsettled and distracted,…
22/04/2021 Read More >>
Zucchini and chilli pepita salad is a simple dish that I love for shoulder seasons where we are still having some nice days but the weather is getting colder. It’s still got a lot of freshness about it but the grilled zucchini is easier to digest than raw salad and the chilli pepitas give it…
21/04/2021 Read More >>
Weight loss improves just about every aspect of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Whilst it is often more difficult to lose weight when you have PCOS, even modest weight reductions can have a significant impact on PCOS symptoms plus reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. How do I know if I need to…
21/04/2021 Read More >>
It can be quite overwhelming for any individual or couple to decide if their family plan includes children, let alone go one step further and reach out for support to optimise or facilitate fertility. These decisions can be even more complex for those who fall outside of the mainstream heteronormative, coupled, gender binary. Fertility plan…
20/04/2021 Read More >>
How are you this week? I know a few of you reading this in Melbourne have just started yet another lockdown – and of course many of you overseas are still managing the restrictions and ongoing changes that COVID brings each week… We’re a pretty adaptable and resilient species really aren’t we? That’s not to…
16/02/2021 Read More >>
January. The month that should be renamed ‘Try-a-new-diet-ary’. 31 days of shiny good intentions, dosed with ramped-up ‘health’ marketing schemes, and laced with a sprinkle of post-holiday guilt… One 2019 UK study * estimated 26 million people start a weight-loss diet on the turn of the New Year, but 87% (or almost 9 out of…
15/01/2021 Read More >>
Leaky gut – you have probably heard it before, but what exactly does it mean? Leaky gut refers to when the lining of your gut wall becomes damaged, causing pathogens/toxins to leak into the gut and reduce nutrient absorption. Unfortunately leaky gut is relatively common, but fortunately it is something that we can heal. So…
15/01/2021 Read More >>
Pregnancy can cause varied levels of discomfort no matter what time of year it is. However, an increase in blood volume, fluid retention and a metabolism working in overdrive through summertime seems to take the cake in terms of a heightened sense of discomfort 🤰🥵 Luckily, there are a few easy tips that will help…
15/01/2021 Read More >>
A rare opportunity is available now for an experienced Naturopath to join the team at Fertile Ground Health Group (FGHG). FGHG practitioners are leaders in their respective professions for IVF support, fertility and pregnancy-related treatments and are well respected among medical specialists and experts within this area of practice. The launch of the new preconception…
31/10/2020 Read More >>
Rhiannon Hardingham has just opened intake for her 2020 IVF Support Masterclass program for Naturopathic practitioners. Rhiannon is incredibly passionate about professional and clinical improvement. This is evident in everything that she does. It is no wonder that she is in such high demand with both patients seeking reproductive support, and with practitioners searching for…
09/10/2020 Read More >>
How many nights have you SWORN you would get off Netflix earlier/ stopped scrolling social media in bed/ run a bath/ rubbed lavender in your pillow/ done a guided mediation/ got a better night’s sleep?! Or perhaps you tend to lay in bed, wide eyed, coaxing yourself to drop down, only to become more restless…
28/09/2020 Read More >>
How do you build your best healthy pregnancy diet? In this article I will share with you our top non-negotiable recommendations. At Fertile Ground health Group, we believe in educating patients on their fertility journey with the most up to date and relevant research when it comes to making healthy babies. This type of education…
12/09/2020 Read More >>
Pain in pregnancy Pregnancy can be an amazing and rewarding experience for many women. It’s an experience that is often accompanied by varying degrees of pain, but how you look at pain and how much you understand it can drastically alter your perception of it. Pain is a misunderstood beast It is perhaps one of…
07/09/2020 Read More >>
Are you our next remedial and pregnancy massage superstar? We have the opportunity to massage for you! Fertile Ground Health Group is a well known, multidisciplinary natural medicine practice. We focus on preconception, infertility, pregnancy and family health. Our word of mouth and direct referral intake of new patients is as busy as our practice…
20/08/2020 Read More >>
Spring and fertility go hand in hand. By holding springtime in mind as a time of new growth and new life we can harness its vitality. We can get in and hug it close. I have found myself witnessing my daughters’ raising a newborn lamb after his mother died during his birth. Witnessing him being…
19/08/2020 Read More >>
Have you noticed any asymmetry in your baby’s head shape or neck movements. If so, new mama’s, read this: A misshaped head, clinically known as plagiocephaly is a common condition affecting up to 1 in 5 babies in their first 2 months of life. This is most prevalent at 4 months of age as prior…
18/08/2020 Read More >>
We are here to help you – it’s what we love to do. This COVID care package is for you if you: Want better health, rest and body-wide repair, Want help with navigating the complexities of making your Fertility Plan, Have PCOS and want to start making healthy recovery strides simply by adjusting your diet,…
30/07/2020 Read More >>
It’s time to rebuild a healthier world, starting with ourselves. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming to be confronted by the magnitude of change needed to set the entire world on a healthier trajectory. It can feel quite out of our control and way bigger than ourselves and our choices – if we let it. But…
30/07/2020 Read More >>
Lots of people are asking me, “How can I support my health during this pandemic?”. My answer? Start with your diet. There are, of course, many aspects to having a well functioning self. Diet, however, is so incredibly foundational and something we can all attend to daily to help amplify health that it’s one that…
30/07/2020 Read More >>
Do you feel comfortable mask breathing? Do you feel fear about wearing a facial mask? Do you find it claustrophobic? Do you find it anxiety producing? Are you wearing it properly or are you treating it like a piece of face jewellery (only wearing over the mouth with your nose out, or putting it on…
11/07/2020 Read More >>
Why AbunDance? I have always been a fan of moving. I dance when I’m happy, stressed, blissfully confused. I dance out the whole rainbow spectrum of emotion that moves through my body. Free flowing movement gets what is on the inside, out. When I move, my feelings and thoughts become more tangible, malleable almost. There,…
01/07/2020 Read More >>
As we start to move into winter, the cooler weather brings with it a natural inclination for warmer foods. Slow-cooked dishes, casseroles and stewed fruit are meals that are lovely to have over the winter period. Some of my favourite warming meals to have are nourishing soups. Pea & Parsnip Soup with Basil Oil Serves:…
29/06/2020 Read More >>
Pelvic girdle pain. What is it and what can be done to help? Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP) is a term given to describe the discomfort felt anywhere from the front of the pelvis (pubic symphysis) to the back of the pelvis (sacrum) and even around to the sides of the pelvis (hips). During pregnancy 1…
29/06/2020 Read More >>
Pregnancy & Skin – how are they related? Pregnancy is an exciting journey, but may involve a set of new and frustrating skin challenges. The body undergoes a tremendous amount of change through pregnancy with more than 90% of women experiencing significant and complex skin changes. These changes may be desirable for some, but for…
29/06/2020 Read More >>
The Chinese medicine take on the quality of your menstrual flow As a woman, if you’ve ever had a Chinese medicine consultation, it is quite likely you’ve been questioned about the health of your endometrial lining and your period in some detail, even if you are not trying to conceive. We ask a lot of…
27/05/2020 Read More >>
How can you help your kids manage stress? Living in this day and age, stress is a normal part of modern life. Some types of stress can be helpful, whereas other types of stress can be incredibly debilitating if sustained long-term. Children may be exposed to some sort of stress everyday. “Good” stress might show…
25/05/2020 Read More >>
