Manchester Fertility Services Blog

Written by Professor Brian Lieberman, Founder of Manchester Fertility Services

Posts Tagged ‘IVF Treatment’

Egg Sharing at Manchester Fertility Services

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

North West infertility clinic, Manchester Fertility Services is offering couples reduced rate IVF through a new scheme which aims to help women who need donor eggs. The new egg-sharing programme is designed to help couples who need IVF but can’t afford private treatment. The programme gives them a subsidised rate for a cycle of IVF if they agree to donate some of their eggs collected during the IVF process, which are not being used for their own treatment, to other infertile...

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Embryo Freezing and Frozen Embryo Transfer – What it means and Why it’s done?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Embryo freezing is an option if you’re undergoing IVF and wish to have more children in the future. It gives you the chance to give your child a biological sibling – known as a conceptual twin – in future years, without the need to go through the whole IVF process again. As such it avoids repeated ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, sperm donation and...

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Surrogacy Laws – is it safe to go abroad?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

For many couples, surrogacy can be their only option of having a baby. But if a couple uses a surrogate from abroad, they risk the chance of not being recognised as its legal parents. According to latest news stories, couples who pay extra ‘fees’ to secure a foreign surrogate’s services are flouting British laws which restrict payments for surrogacy. In the UK, you can only pay ‘expenses reasonably incurred’, such as compensation for missing work, medical care and living costs, and this applies whether your surrogate comes from the UK or...

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Struggling to have a second baby? You may have secondary infertility

Monday, April 12th, 2010

If you’ve already had a healthy baby, and are looking to have another child, it’s natural to assume that you’ll get pregnant with no problems, just as you did before. However, did you know that infertility can strike even when you’ve successfully conceived before? Being unable to get pregnant again, even if you’ve already got a child, is called secondary...

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Celebrity Older Mums – how did they conceive?

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

What do Hollywood actresses Halle Berry, Marcia Cross, Susan Sarandon, Courtney Cox and Holly Hunter all have in common? They had children in their 40s, some of them in their late 40s. But what they don’t tell you is that in most cases, women who do have children at this age aren’t getting pregnant ‘naturally’, or even through IVF. They’re having to use a donor egg. Marcia Cross, of TV's Desperate Housewives, recently revealed that a donor egg was how she managed to finally have...

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