KIM CROSSMAN'S SPIRITUAL BABY SHOWER

In her own words, the actress, 35 explains why she designed her special celebration to reflect her fertility journey

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Before I got married, I turned convention on its head a bit and had a wholesome hen's party with SPCA puppies to cuddle and a guided meditation.

So when it came to planning a baby shower, I felt there was space to try something a little left of centre and customise the experience to fit my journey, which, like most fertility journeys, has been both unique and common in many ways.

After a diagnosis of very low AMH [a diminished ovarian reserve] around this time last year, while I was staring down the likelihood of IVF being my only option to conceive, my husband Tom Walsh and I spent five weeks in Los Angeles doing all we could to get my body and mind to a place where I would have the best luck if we were to start treatment.

What that meant was regulating my nervous system, working through some of my fight-or-flight adrenal fatigue and eating better. One of the treatments recommended to us was acupuncture. During our session, we talked to the acupuncturist about treating my womb like a garden, where I was the gardener. I needed to tend to it daily, like a greenhouse, keeping it warm - and then she mentioned the word 'nourishment.