“You’re old, you’ll probably miscarry”: What’s really causing infertility? With Liberty Mills
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
At age 43 Liberty Mills was told she had a 0.7% chance of having another baby with her own eggs – and that was with the assistance of IVF. But she and her partner decided to continue their fertility journey with the help of integrative medicine, and after a lifestyle overhaul, she conceived her daughter naturally, and gave birth two weeks before her 45th birthday.
In this chat with Fearne, Liberty explains how her own experiences inspired her to become a Certified Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach, helping other individuals and couples to amend their lifestyles to optimise their ability to conceive.
Liberty talks through how everything from vaping, to stress, to the plastics in your kitchen are affecting both female and male fertility. Not planning on having a baby? All these lifestyle changes are still important for our overall health and mental wellbeing.
Plus, Fearne and Liberty do a deep dive into negative self-talk, body image, and the shame that can be attached to infertility.
Liberty’s book, 360 Fertility, is out on May 22nd.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that supports you through rough moments in life. |
| 0:08.1 | Today I'm chatting to Liberty Mills. I know that when I went through my fertility journey, I didn't tell anyone until I was 24 weeks because, oh, you're old, you're probably miscarrying. |
| 0:23.8 | And so I had that in my head. I couldn't even celebrate when I got the pregnancy test oh and we just looked well you know better not get too excited |
| 0:29.1 | change your mindset it's not this is it even though I was told this is it I had to tell tell myself, no, there's a possibility. It's not it. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm excited about today's chat. What I want to say, before I even get into this, is if you're |
| 0:45.1 | not on a fertility journey, you might have already decided you don't want kids or you've got kids |
| 0:49.3 | and you're fine with it. I really urge you to listen to this chat because it goes way beyond fertility. |
| 0:55.1 | This chat goes into lots of different subjects that I'll talk about more properly in a moment, |
| 0:59.8 | but certainly about the toxins in our house and how we can clean up our act there |
| 1:03.9 | and just feel generally better. |
| 1:06.0 | But the bit that always really obviously piques my interest is when we're looking at mental health. |
| 1:10.7 | And we talk a lot |
| 1:12.1 | in this chat about negative self-talk. And if you're anything like me, and I know many of you are, |
| 1:17.9 | you will have a lot of negative chat in your noodle. I talk to myself like utter shit a lot of the |
| 1:24.1 | time. And I know I do it and I hate it. Even though I've been doing this podcast for seven years and I've written a load of books on it, I still do it all the time and I know I do it and I hate it even though I've been doing this podcast for seven |
| 1:28.9 | years and I've written a load of books on it I still do it all the time and I know that it really |
| 1:34.1 | messes up my day sometimes it can completely change the mood and tone of a day and all of these things |
| 1:40.3 | are fixable you know certainly when it comes to negative self-talk, we've got so much |
| 1:44.4 | more autonomy over all of it than we think we have. So this chat got me thinking a lot about that. |
| 1:51.3 | And I'm going to do one of the exercises that Liberty, who I talked to today, suggests, I'm going to |
| 1:57.1 | do it within the next hour. When I get home, I'm getting out a notepad and I'm writing |
| 2:01.8 | this shit down because this is something that I think stops all of us in our tracks. So as I said, |
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