Archive for category 'Treatments'. Page 1 of 4

  • 18th
    May
    2012

    Egg-freezing - funded by grandparents of the future

    Egg-freezing is becoming a more popular option amongst women who perhaps aren’t at the right time in their life to have a child, or simply haven’t met Mr Right – but now it seems that parents are more than willing to help try to secure their future as grandparents.

    According to reports from America, more and more parents are funding the cost for their daughters to freeze their eggs as women delay motherhood due to career ambitions or not meeting the right partner.

    The America...

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  • 9th
    May
    2012

    Embryo Development to Improve your Chances of Pregnancy

    At Manchester Fertility Services one of the treatment options we offer is extended culture and blastocyst transfer which can help improve your chances of successful pregnancy.

    Extended culture is when our expert embryology team closely monitor the development of an embryo in our laboratory incubator, allowing it to develop for longer after fertilisation.

    These crucial extra days of monitoring allow us to select only those embryos which have a good chance of implanting and therefore a better ch...

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  • 11th
    Apr
    2012     Egg-sharing IVF - what are your chances of pregnancy?

    Egg-sharing IVF - what are your chances of pregnancy?

    If you need IVF but don’t qualify for NHS treatment or can’t get it where you live because your local primary care trust has stopped offering it, you may already be wondering about joining our egg-sharing programme.

    Egg-sharing gives you a way to get a subsidised cycle of IVF treatment with us for £850 inclusive of all drugs and necessary screening tests, in return for donating half of your eggs which we retrieve during your IVF cycle, which aren’t being used for your ow...

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  • 1st
    Dec
    2011

    MFS patients to benefit from new 'EmbryoGlue' to maximise chances of pregnancy

    Once an embryo is transferred back into the uterus following IVF, you can never guarantee it will successfully implant for pregnancy. But we’re excited to announce that Manchester Fertility Services is the first fertility clinic in the North West to use a new embryo transfer medium, that is aimed at promoting embryos implantation.

    The new product called ‘EmbryoGlue’ has been created specifically to encourage successful implantation of embryos.

    EmbryoGlue helps because it cont...

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  • 8th
    Nov
    2011

    Egg Freezing - When is the right time?

    Egg-freezing for social reasons is something more and more women are considering, either because they wish to concentrate on careers or simply haven’t met the right partner to have a family with.

    But what’s the right age to freeze your eggs? Scientists in the USA are urging women not to delay freezing eggs because too many women are only considering it when their chances of pregnancy success from their frozen eggs may already be too low.

    Egg freezing gives you the chance to freeze ...

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  • 5th
    Oct
    2011

    How Egg-Sharing Works

    Our egg-sharing programme is becoming more and more popular amongst women who need IVF themselves, as it gives women a cycle of IVF at a subsidised rate of £850 (inclusive of all screening and necessary drugs) whilst also helping those women who need to use donor eggs to get pregnant. But how does it work?

    Firstly, if you wish to become an egg-sharer, you need to be aged 35 or under. You will also need to undergo medical screening to make sure your eggs are healthy enough to be used. The ...

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  • 15th
    Sep
    2011

    Had a Vasectomy but want a family?

    If you’ve had a vasectomy in the past but want to have a family, it’s not impossible. Through a technique called Surgical Sperm Retrieval (SSR), our team of experts may still be able to find sufficient sperm which can be used to fertilise an egg.

    SSR is a procedure where sperm is retrieved directly from the testes, as once you’ve had a vasectomy, there isn’t any sperm in your semen sample anymore – when this happens, it’s called azoospermia. However, it doesn...

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  • 15th
    Sep
    2011

    Women freeze eggs dues to recession fears

    Women are so concerned about the recession that they’re prepared to freeze their eggs so they can postpone parenthood. In the Red magazine survey of more than 2,500 women aged 30-45, more than a quarter revealed that had considered egg freezing because of the current financial climate, while 15% said they had decided not to try for children at all.

    Women are also prepared to spend less on fertility treatment should they need it. Last year, in the same survey, the average amount respo...

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  • 11th
    Apr
    2011

    Egg-freezing in a flash - the new technique

    Would you ever freeze your eggs? You may be wondering why you would want to. But plenty of women from Manchester and across the North West have contacted us about this treatment.

    Egg-freezing can be done for medical reasons – because you’re about to go through treatment which could affect your fertility, such as chemotherapy – or social reasons, because you aren’t ready for children but want to know that when the time comes, your eggs will still be good enough to achieve...

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  • 4th
    Feb
    2011

    Surrogacy hits the headlines

    Surrogacy is the hot headline of the day thanks to Hollywood and a very unusual court case. Nicole Kidman has had a second baby via a surrogate, but she unfortunately caused debate and controversy by referring to her surrogate as the ‘gestational carrier.’

    The second reason surrogacy has dominated news pages is because a judge has ruled that a surrogate mother here in the UK can keep the baby – it’s biologically hers and she refused to hand it over to the married couple she was having...

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