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Written by Professor Brian Lieberman, of Manchester Fertility Services
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18th
May
2012Egg-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
2012ICSI & Birth Defects – Should You Be Concerned?
The media has been full of headlines this weekend about a form of infertility treatment – ICSI – and an apparent link to birth defects.
A new study from Adelaide in South Australia linked a census of more than 6100 assisted-conception births to a registry of 308,974 births and 18,000 recorded birth defects in 1986-2002.
It found that babies born using Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection – where a single sperm is injected directly into the egg to fertilise it - had a higher risk ...
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9th
May
2012Embryo 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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24th
Apr
2012How did you feel about needing infertility treatment?
What were your feelings when you realised that having a baby wouldn’t be as easy as you expected? Frustrated? Helpless? You’re not alone. A new survey conducted by researchers at Oxford University indicates that many couples are often unprepared for infertility and uninformed about their options.
Through interviews with both women and men aged between 25 and 40, it seems that many couples wished they had known the toll infertility treatment was going to take on them both physic...
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17th
Apr
2012NHS IVF Funding - Transferring your care to us
The IVF postcode lottery in England is still in full swing according to BBC News reports, and where infertile couples in Scotland and Wales get excellent access to NHS-funded fertility treatment, in England many couples are denied it simply because of where they live.
Statistics show around two per cent of all children in the UK are now born via IVF, and whilst the NHS continues to cut funding of infertility treatment, it is the private IVF clinics who are filling the demand for treatment from ...
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11th
Apr
2012
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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3rd
Apr
2012
25 years since our First IVF Baby
It’s hard to believe it but this week marks 25 years since our very first IVF baby was born.
Philip John Hood made his arrival on 3 April 1987. Our small team had much to celebrate when Philip arrived, it heralded the start of our many years of successful treatments and with it, the creation of many happy families.
As are we here at Manchester Fertility Services. Indeed, some of our team who saw Philip begin life in our laboratory are still here today, including our Principal Embryologis...
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29th
Mar
2012
Would you think about preserving your fertility because of medical treatment?
If you’re facing treatment for cancer which could mean your fertility is affected, would you consider freezing your eggs?
According to a new report from the US, too many young women who are faced with undergoing treatment such as chemotherapy aren’t being given enough help and guidance about protecting their fertility prior to treatment such as chemotherapy.
The study questioned over 1,000 Californian women who had all been diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 18 and 40. But o...
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27th
Mar
2012
Can diet and weight really affect men's fertility?
If you’re planning a pregnancy it makes sense to ensure you’re as healthy as possible, and for men even more so as two new studies have shown that both diet and weight can affect sperm quality.
An international study found that heavy men are more likely than those with normal weights to have low sperm counts or even be producing sperm at all.
And how much overweight a man is really counts – results found that overweight men were 11 per cent more likely to have a low sperm cou...
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15th
Mar
2012Natural Cycle IVF - how does it work?
A recent article in the media highlighted ‘natural cycle’ IVF which some doctors are claiming to have success with, particularly when treating older women whose only other hope would be donor eggs.
Natural cycle IVF is when you don’t use high doses of fertility drugs to boost egg production, instead opting for a drug-free approach.
And although some doctors are reporting a good success rate with this method, it is not an option we would typically recommend if you’...
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