Aimz Terrio

06/06/2026

DD: what are you catholic?

AH: no, I’m just a girl.

05/30/2026

Women’s health is an early intervention strategy for population growth, workforce stability, and long-term economic resilience.

In Canada, approximately 1 in 6 people will experience infertility. That represents a significant share of the population facing real barriers to growing their families, often shaped by cost, timing, and underlying medical conditions.

This makes early reproductive health awareness and intervention especially important for young women.

Understanding fertility health earlier in life, and identifying issues as they emerge, can change long-term outcomes and expand options for family planning.

When reproductive health concerns are identified earlier, including chronic conditions such as endometriosis and PMOS (formerly PCOS), it can significantly improve quality of life, pain management, and fertility outcomes.

Earlier support also means women are better positioned to make informed decisions about when and how to grow their families, and to access fertility care where required.

This is not just about individual care. It is an upstream investment in community health and long-term system sustainability.

Economic resilience depends on supporting women to grow their families, participate fully in the workforce, and do so without avoidable barriers to care.

The IWK Foundation Women’s Health Survey last year reinforced this connection. Thousands of Maritime women made it clear that when women are not supported earlier in life, the impacts are felt across families and the healthcare system.

Please consider making a donation to help bridge the gap so young women across the Maritimes can have better access to the care they need and participate fully in their communities.

https://secure.iwkfoundation.org/site/Donation2?PROXY_ID=1510&5020.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T&idb=1711566228&df_id=5020&PROXY_TYPE=21&FR_ID=1510

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If the IWK has touched your life in some way and you've always wanted to give back, fundraising is a great way to say thanks.

05/19/2026

LETS TALK ABOUT IT 🌸🌸

05/18/2026

long wknders

05/10/2026

only 7% of health funding goes toward women’s health (appalling).

05/03/2026

helping out that icloud storage rn

04/27/2026

Fertility is where the conversation about women’s health actually needs to start.

Not at the point of struggle.
Not after years of symptoms.
Not after years of trying.
Not once something has already gone wrong.
Not after multiple miscarriages.

Our health system still waits for women to fail before they are given information about their own bodies. That is the problem.

The starting point should be the opposite: giving women the tools, data, and support to make informed choices about their bodies.

Knowing your fertility score is part of that. It is not just about reproduction. It is a strategic window into hormonal health, metabolic function, and how your body is actually functioning in real time. That kind of insight changes decisions. It changes timelines. It changes outcomes.

And right now, most women are not given access to that until they are already inside a system trying to fix something that could have been understood earlier.

I have lived this. Being moved through care without being seen as a whole person, only as a set of symptoms to manage or a problem to solve after the fact. That is not an accident. It is a design issue in how care is structured and accessed.

We need to stop designing women’s health around crisis points.

If we actually want to change health outcomes for women, the starting point has to shift to:

🌸 Early access to fertility education
🌸 Testing and tools that help women understand their bodies and timelines early
🌸 Funding that prioritizes preventive health, not just intervention

If you take one thing away from Canadian Fertility Awareness Week, let it be this interview with Dr. Crawford:

https://youtu.be/RTPNJgHeZBI

Women should not have to wait to fail in order to better understand their health, or to know more about the one thing that biologically makes them a woman.

The uterus. The ovaries. That’s us. 🙋‍♀️

Fertility literacy should be the entry point into women’s health, not the emergency exit.

We desperately need more funding. More education. More access. More autonomy.

Fertility is the key to women’s health. But first, we must unlock fertility.



cc: Fertility Matters Canada : IWK Foundation

Dr. Natalie Crawford, MD, is a double board-certified OB-GYN and reproductive endocrinologist. We discuss how to improve hormone health at any age and the im...

04/12/2026

hiiieee 🌸

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02/08/2026

I asked ChatGPT to review and remind me of what I have shared here with you all on here since 2017 and make it into this caricature.

Every post, every story, every moment of calling out gaps and pushing for better. Seeing it reflected back reminded me how advocacy is built over time through consistency, community, and courage.

In Nova Scotia, together, we helped amplify community voices to support the fertility tax credit because reproductive care is health care and families deserve support without stigma or silence. That work reinforced how powerful it is when lived experience informs policy change.

This space has shaped my perspective on reproductive rights, women’s health, and what it means to show up even when it is uncomfortable. There is more to do and it’s just getting started.

More advocacy ahead for women’s health in NS with the ambitions and tenacity of - if you have been someone who has been following my journey, or resonated with my stories, I will keep fighting with you 🌸

01/19/2026