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News & events

Things worth knowing, from the people who'd tell you in the room

Articles, updates and events from the Origia team, written plainly, without hype, and without pretending the evidence is more certain than it is.

Most of what people want to know about fertility, pregnancy and women's health isn't secret. It's just buried under noise, or explained in a way that assumes you already have a medical degree.

This is where we put the things our practitioners find themselves explaining over and over: what a test actually measures, what a symptom might mean, what the research does and doesn't support, and what tends to help.

News

Longer pieces from our specialists on fertility, pregnancy, gynaecology and wellbeing, plus updates from the clinic.

Events

Information evenings, workshops and small-group sessions held at our Collingwood rooms and online. Places are limited so that there's room for real questions.

Nothing here is a substitute for advice about your own situation. If something you read raises a question, bring it to your appointment. That's the best possible use of it.

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From the clinic

Written by the practitioners who would tell you the same thing in the room.

  • A pathology request form and blood collection tubes on a consulting room desk
    Fertility

    AMH is not a fertility test

    A single blood test has become shorthand for whether someone can have a baby. It isn't that, and treating it that way causes real distress.

    By Dr Joseph Sgroi

  • A softly lit nursery corner with a folded blanket and a rocking chair
    Pregnancy

    The fourth trimester deserves a plan too

    Most people plan their birth in detail and the twelve weeks afterwards not at all. Those weeks are the ones that tend to catch families off guard.

    By Vanessa Salerno

From the team

The Doula & The Doc

A podcast hosted by Dr Joseph Sgroi, obstetrician and fertility specialist, and Vanessa Salerno, birth and postpartum doula. Across preconception, pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period, they talk through the medical and the holistic side of the same moments, drawing on what each of them sees from a very different seat in the room. It plays like the conversation you would get from either of them in a consult, just longer and with more room for tangents.

Also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts .

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