Dr Chris Russell

Happy Easter! 🍫🐣🐇🥕

Please note the rooms reopen at 8:30am on Tuesday, 11 April✌

Almost mid week, how's everyone going with the return to work in January? Off to a firing start, or ready to take a nap like little Matilda? 🩷👶

Either way, we hope it's been nice and are all adjusting well in 2023

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It’s that time of year again 🎄🥳🎉

With the festive season upon us, the team at Dr Chris Russell's rooms are taking some time to recharge over the Christmas and New Year break – so the opening hours will look a little different during this time

The rooms will return to their regular operating hours on Tuesday, 3 January 2023

Best wishes for a happy holiday season!


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Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and head into this week as happy as Max!

Gorgeous baby Jude and big brother William 💙 a loving, tender moment between siblings. Hoping with the change to daylight savings that their parents weren't awoken too early this morning! 😊

If you’re one of the 70% of women around child-bearing age currently using some form of contraception, you may be wondering, ‘can birth control affect my future fertility?', the short answer is no – most methods of contraception do not have any long-term effects on your ability to fall pregnant. However, it can be helpful to understand how different types of contraception affect your body, and how to plan ahead if you are ready to start trying to conceive

Check out the following blog https://drchrisrussell.com.au/omfg/falling-pregnant-post-pill-and-other-contraceptives/ to delve into contraceptive options, its use on fertility, falling pregnant and when to ask for help

The team are so lucky and appreciative to have such wonderful patients in Chris' care

We adore the rapport we build with patients, it honestly makes our jobs all the more rewarding

Thank you Alison for such a heartfelt review, the feeling is mutual


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12 weeks of loving our son Ryan & welcoming him into our lives.

29.4.2021 - Five weeks early, he caught everyone off guard. 👶

I'm happy but at the same time feeling sad that the pregnancy & birth journey that I've taken with Dr Russell, midwife Jenny, the fantastic Admin team of Jan, Rachel, Donna & the whole team of nurses, Special Care Nursery staff & paediatricians at Epworth Freemasons has come to an end.

They've become like members of a 2nd family, & have all been amazingly supportive throughout my pregnancy, which had many many emotional ups and downs, including a diagnosis of gestational diabetes & a dose of Covid.

Dr Russell & his team always has his patients health & wellbeing at the forefront of his practice.

I've never felt more relaxed or as calm or at ease with a practitioner, no question is too silly to ask & no question is ever off limits, we explore alternatives, to discuss best outcomes for bub & myself.

My family & I will be forever grateful for all of the teams' involved for their care and support in assisting us to bring our bundle of joy safely into the world.

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Keeping our patients and staff safe is our priority and so we are reinstating some additional visitor restrictions, effective Tuesday, 12 July 2022.⁣
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For more information visit our link in bio.

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Dr Chris Russell, one of Newlife IVF's founding doctors and fertility specialists, consulting at our East Melbourne clinic.

Chris prides himself on his approachable and inclusive bedside manner: “My aim is to make fertility simple and understandable for every patient. I really see fertility treatment as an alliance or democracy, where I decide very little, but arm my patients with the knowledge they need to inform their own path.”

To make an appointment with Chris, call (03) 8080 8933 or book online via our website.

This picture conveys how similar, but also how very different two siblings can be. Here's Val & younger sibling Flossie, these pics taken when each were 11 months old 👶🏻👶🏻

Saying goodbye can be hard for us at the rooms when the pregnancy care comes to an end, so lovely to be updated by mums long after their babies have been delivered by Chris 🥰

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Did you miss this week's webinar on fertility testing and how we can identify why you and your partner may be experiencing a delay in falling pregnant?

Catch up now on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/VEe2eSb-91o (type short link into your search browser)

📸: Dr Chris Russell, Newlife IVF fertility specialist, live during Tuesday night's webinar.

A little bit of wholesomeness to cap off the weekend, in the form of baby Louis and his equally adorable brother Rudy

Thanks to mum for sharing these undeniably gorgeous shots 📸💚

To all the wonderful nurses, your tireless work and effort day in and day out does not go unnoticed, especially over the last few years 🏥

Thank you for everything you do, going above and beyond, for our loved ones and the greater community 💕

Thinking of everyone today

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In last night’s webinar on the IVF process, Newlife IVF fertility specialist, Dr Chris Russell, explained to viewers the different kinds of hormonal injections involved in IVF. In this photo, he is demonstrating how to administer an injection.

You’ll be able to catch up on this webinar on our YouTube channel in the coming days - we’ll let you know when it’s live. In the meantime, you can check out some of our other webinars if you have a fertility question or topic you’d like to learn more about.

These may just look like delicious noodles, but they have a very sweet backstory 🍜

Recently Chris had a regular antenatal appointment with expectant parents and during consult, Chris and they discovered that dad's mum was a beloved midwife at the Mercy Hospital for Women who would regularly provide the night shift staff with her amazing noodles! For starters, how nice is that?! 🏥🌃

Secondly, look what turns up with the parents and their beautiful newborn at mum's six week check up? The generosity of this wonder(ful) woman and grandmother is infinite! 😮😍

Adding to the good vibes, one of the other doctors who works out of the suite walked past the kitchen and immediately recognised the noodles from their past night shift stints 😄 these noodles clearly made and continue to make a lasting impression!

Some lovely news to cap off the week 🥳


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We are thrilled to announce further easing of visitor restrictions from Saturday, 23 April 2022.

From tomorrow, maternity patients in our postnatal wards can have unlimited visitors.

There will be two visiting periods for maternity patients each day, from 10am to 1pm and from 4pm to 7pm. This is to allow rest time for patients and allow education and feeding support to take place.

In our birthing suites, two support people are allowed (including partners) and no additional visitors.

For more information visit our link in bio

Wishing a very Happy Easter long weekend to everyone, we hope you're enjoying some wonderful time with your loved ones, whether home or away, and aren't feeling too sick from the chocolate consumption 🍫🐣🐇

Please note the rooms reopen at 8:30am on Tuesday, 19 April ✌

Here's the wonderful Jan from the rooms having a lovely cuddle with baby Kate recently, topped only by a beautiful sibling cuddle between Kate and older brother Hunter - what a sweet moment to capture, here's to many more! 💗

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Dr Chris Russell, Dr Sameer Jatkar and Dr Hugo Fernandes (L>R), enjoying a specialist education dinner with peers in Melbourne last night.

"Feminism isn't about making women strong. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength" - G.D. Anderson

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We know how difficult it has been for our patients with visitor restrictions in place, so we are thrilled to announce the easing of restrictions from Wednesday, 9 March 2022.

From tomorrow, in our postnatal wards, in addition to a support person, each patient can have one visitor daily at one time,

In our birthing suites, only one support person is allowed daily and no additional visitors.

For more information visit the link in bio

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This is baby Freya with Newlife IVF fertility specialists Dr Sameer Jatkar and Dr Chris Russell. Sameer was mum's IVF specialist, and assisted Chris, who is also an obstetrician, at mum's caesarean. Freya is appropriately named – in Norse mythology, Freya was the goddess of love and fertility. ❤️

Finding it hard to fit in a gym session or exercise class? Life can be busy at the best of times, but it's so important to ensure you are keeping active and making your health a priority 💪

Here's a really great and efficient daily work out you can do in amongst the chaos and better yet, when it suits you! 🏋️‍♀️

💙 Baby Tate 💙

The level of adorable is very high with this one! What a selection of beautiful shots capturing the start of your life

The rooms feel very honoured to have been on mum's journey to have you

Thanks to everyone who didn’t go into labour this weekend and giving me the time to coach (assistant to Chris B) these champions to their first tournament win ever, and my first since 1991! Well done Scarlett Russell on some great performances and Ava K from our friends for the sweetest three I ever did see in the semi final.

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There is no longer a requirement to get a weekly PCR test from 37 weeks onwards for patients and their partner or support person. We do however, encourage patients and their partner or support person to consider testing in the latter stages of pregnancy.

If you arrive at hospital in labour, you and your partner or support person will be given a Rapid Antigen Test by Epworth, on arrival, if you don’t have a test result within the last 72 hours.

All patients and their partner or support person being admitted for a booked elective caesarean, or an induced birth, are required to take a PCR test or a Rapid Antigen Test, no more than 72 hours before admission and preferably on day of admission.

For more info, visit link in bio.