The AIRRM conversation began with a small group of general practitioners and obstetrician/gynaecologists who were helping patients struggling with fertility and infertility issues. For many patients, the only highly recommended treatment they had been offered was In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and many of these patients were not interested in IVF or had experienced this process multiple times without success. Such patients wanted to identify, discuss and source holistic options, where the approach would be to investigate thoroughly, and treat effectively, all diagnosed pathology so that reproductive health and hopefully, fertility, is restored.
Since those early conversations, The Australasian Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine (AIRRM) has emerged and has now transformed to become the national peak professional organisation dedicated to holistic management of fertility and reproductive health disorders.
AIRRM practitioners promote contemporary and evidence-based fertility management and aim for excellence in the provision of physical and psychological care. Our treatments are based on respected recent scientific research and publications and ongoing discussions in a worldwide forum of restorative reproductive health professionals.
Our general practitioners, other medical specialists, allied health practitioners and fertility awareness educators come together with a common goal - holistic management of fertility, infertility and reproductive health disorders. Today our membership continues to expand with support across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
The Australasian Institute of Restorative Reproductive Medicine (AIRRM) emerged several years after the first international National Fertility Conference in Melbourne in 2014, initiated by the John Paul II Institute of Marriage and Family.
The conference aim was to bring together the three accredited organisations of natural family planning in Australia (Sympto-thermal, Billings Ovulation Method, and Creighton FertilityCare) together with medical and allied health professionals and bioethicists with a common interest in the field of restorative reproductive medicine. The hope was to establish a basis for ongoing collaborative research and development in fertility awareness and diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
This successful gathering led to steps being made to form the incorporated organisation we have today. The first Board meeting of AIRRM was
held in 2017.
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