Eating for fertility: What you need to know and eat when planning to conceive

Offering practical advice around food, stress, sleep and exercise, author and nutritional therapist Charlotte Grand wants to help people prepare for conception 

Author and nutritional therapist Charlotte Grand: “We thought it should be easy. At school, we were always taught that we could just get pregnant instantly."

When Charlotte Grand and her husband started trying to have a baby, she was shocked when it didn’t just happen easily: “We thought it should be easy. At school, we were always taught that we could just get pregnant instantly.

“I’ve been with my husband since I was 17, we got married at 25, started trying to have a baby at 26, and it just didn’t happen. It was frustrating. We were both seemingly fit and healthy.