This case study was sent to SNTR, Society for Natural Therapies and Research, our professional body. A young woman has been with her partner for eight years and trying for a baby for more than seven years, without result, and was about to give up hope altogether.

OD revealed it was a matter of timing. I enquired how often her menstrual periods occurred and when her last one was. The answer was plain: I told her not to wait until nighttime as she had the shortest-ever fertile period. She needed to go home and tell her partner to come home as, 'there was an emergency!'

Six weeks later she was pregnant! They are 'blaming' me!