​Hey there, peeps! It’s Emily, the Social Media/Blog Manager! I’ve never written one of these before, mainly because I leave the medical stuff to my mother and the conversational stuff for my father. But this time, the topic is somewhat of my department. It’s Pride Month! And being in the community myself, I feel it’s super important to make sure…

​Just for clarity, in the instances we talking about we are looking at patients traveling abroad, either for IVF or Egg Donation. I suppose, technically we are an agency, but I intensely dislike that title when it comes to our services as it seems so impersonal, something which we are most categorically not. There are basically two types of agencies…

​I had planned to do this conclusion right after we posted the last part of our egg donation series but as some of you may have heard events at home took over with my husband, Simon suffering a mild stroke, admitted to hospital but thankfully back home now and then my daughter and I catching Covid (and not feeling very…

This piece was started before Simon was admitted to hospital following a minor stroke. This was completed once he arrived back home with us, but it is still relevant today. As of 4am GMT+2, there have been 24,000 reported deaths and  10 million people displaced. Those are horrifying figures, and this is in no way over yet. Please remember that,…

​When travelling any distance for treatment you need to consider what your travel looks like and how long it will take as that may play a part in where to go for treatment too. As I was reminded by a patient the other day, don’t just look at flight times but look at your journey from home to the airport…

​How many embryos to replace? Wow, that is a hard one to advise on as it is again a personal choice. Firstly, bear in mind that the chances of pregnancy are based on the age of the egg, not your age so if you were told your chances of success were 10% previously that was based on your 41-year-old egg,…

​Having already looked at the first two issues we then look at specific clinics and there is so much choice out there for the most, (not as much with identity released donors) but we then look at what clinics offer in terms of the number of eggs, number of embryos etc. Guarantee programs are more and more attractive to patients…

​So, we have decided on what type of donor and from there can determine which clinic based on the next round of options. Fresh or vitrified eggs and embryos. There is much made about this issue of fresh or vitrified eggs and embryos. ‘Fresh is best’ I hear a lot and for the most part, I would agree BUT there…

“Neither blizzard nor frosty rain, nor lack of heat nor Covid stays these gallant people from getting pregnant.” The above is a version of the US postal system’s creed and how resilient their postal workers are in getting the mail to its intended destination. So I thought it more than appropriate to adapt it not only in relation to the…

​The first biggest decision that needs to be made is what type of donor you want: anonymous or identity released/non-anonymous. This decision is often based on whether it is your intention to tell a child about the use of a donor egg or not but also whether you want them to be able to have contact with a donor in…