When fertility treatment takes up a year of your life, your career can start to feel like something you will get back to later. Louise's story is a reminder that the clarity is usually already there. Sometimes you just need a push to act on it.

I took a week off and almost didn't. It got me thinking about the women I work with who never get one, and the quiet cost of putting your whole self on hold until treatment's done.

I'm not going to tell you I sailed through it. I didn't. But there were three things I actively switched that made a real difference — and none of them involved a gratitude journal.

When we talk about fertility at work, we almost always picture a woman. I did too, even while I was living it. Here's why that picture needs to change — and what it costs when it doesn't.

There's a conversation I have with almost every woman I work with. She'll mention something almost in passing — a project she didn't put her hand up for, a promotion she decided wasn't the right time. And then she'll say: "I just thought it made sense to wait and see." This is what fertility treatment does to a career.

I don't know if earlier investigations would have saved my pregnancies. I'm honestly not sure anything could have. But I think they might have saved my mental health.

Telling your boss you're doing IVF is one of the hardest conversations you'll face during treatment. Most women spend weeks rehearsing it and still don't know what to say. Here's a practical, honest guide to having it well — from someone who negotiated a promotion, a pay rise, and a full bonus while going through IVF herself.

I have a tendency to rush between things and not come up for air until it's too late. It took me a long time to realise that the problem wasn't the pace. It was that I'd never stopped to notice the pace was a problem. If you're going through IVF and holding your career together at the same time, I suspect you know exactly what I mean.

I don't even buy lottery tickets because they don't refund you if you don't win. But my biggest ever bet was £30,000. And honestly, that wasn't even the expensive bit.

When I was going through fertility treatment, I didn't just lose pregnancies, I lost my sense of self at work. The panic attacks, the secrecy, the exhaustion of pretending everything was fine while my body and heart were going through something enormous. In this podcast with Natalie Silverman, I open up about what that really looked like, and how career coaching for fertility helped me, and now helps my clients, find a way through.

The years from that time have a way of blurring together but I still think about the waiter who just poured the champagne, no questions asked. This Mother's Day, if you're not sure you count, this one's for you.

11 years ago, I was rushed into emergency surgery after a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. For weeks, I'd been crossing the bridge from my office to St Thomas's EPU and back again, hiding what was happening, pretending to be fine at work.

Here’s what I wish I’d known.

I'm proud to be part of Tommy's and The Stylist Group's Every Loss Counts campaign. Here's my story, or just a small part of it. Not easy to share but important to do so.

The loss of my second baby was straightforward compared to the first (a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy). But no miscarriage is ever really straightforward.

Things that were said to me when I miscarried and what I wish they'd said instead.

I don’t look particularly anxious in this photo do I? But that was taken 3 months after my second miscarriage. I hoped I was pregnant but my period started and I cried lying on the floor of the hotel shower for 45 mins until my husband scooped me up in a towel. The hotel allowed you to borrow their dog for a beach walk - he was so soothing and the fresh air really helped.

The Every Loss Counts campaign, which I am so honoured to be part of, is dedicated to providing education and support to anyone experiencing baby loss, campaigning for the Miscarriage Bill to be approved, recording every lossand creating empathetic, fertility-friendly workplaces.

To mark Infertility Awareness Month I was interviewed by The Flow Space.

The findings from 1,500 respondents revealed…