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Archive for tag 'IVF Treatment'. Page 2 of 3

  • 14th
    Dec
    2010

    Need IVF? Don't rely on the NHS

    If you’re struggling to conceive, don’t rely on the NHS to offer you IVF treatment. The media has been full of reports that health trusts up and down the country are either stopping IVF treatment altogether, or are suspending treatment to try and save money...

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  • 15th
    Nov
    2010

    Do you really need IVF?

    Katie Price’s desire to have a child with husband Alex Reid is well documented in the tabloid media and women’s magazines. But what is surprising is that they recently revealed that they’d undergone not one but two unsuccessful IVF attempts in a bid to get pregnant...

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  • 29th
    Apr
    2010

    Egg Sharing at Manchester Fertility Services

    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 women...

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  • 27th
    Apr
    2010

    Embryo Freezing and Frozen Embryo Transfer - What it means and Why it's done?

    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 fertilisation...

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  • 22nd
    Apr
    2010

    Surrogacy Laws - is it safe to go abroad?

    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 thi...

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  • 12th
    Apr
    2010

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

    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 infertility...

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  • 6th
    Apr
    2010

    Celebrity Older Mums - how did they conceive?

    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 child...

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  • 30th
    Mar
    2010

    Do new HFEA rules mean an end to IVF twins and triplets?

    The HFEA is aiming to reduce the number of multiple births following IVF with a new set of rules which come into force next month (April). Under new guidelines, clinics – whether private or NHS – will now be asked to help reduce the chance of having twins and triplets by only transferring one embryo per cycle...

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  • 11th
    Mar
    2010

    The maximum age to be an IVF mum

    The BBC’s recent documentary, Too Old to Be a Mum? focused on the cases of three women around the world, aged 59, 63 and 70, who have recently had children through IVF. Then today - a story in the Daily Mail appeared regarding Karen Johnston, who had twins at aged 54. Clearly, thanks to the treatment, all of these women were not too old to be a mum...

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  • 23rd
    Feb
    2010

    Why can't we choose the sex of our baby?

    A recent Channel 4 documentary, Eight Boys and Wanting a Girl, raised some interesting questions about whether people should be given the right to choose the sex of their child. In the UK, gender selection is not allowed if you simply want to balance your family out. Only in the most extreme medical circumstances – such as passing on a genetic disease that only affects boys – will it be considered....

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