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First Christmas as a family, thank you Bourn Hall!

“We spent many Christmases saying to each other ‘maybe next year we will have another stocking to…

First Christmas as a family, thank you Bourn Hall!

“We spent many Christmases saying to each other ‘maybe next year we will have another stocking to…

Coping with Christmas: Make your own family traditions

A game plan can help you cope with family get-togethers

Coping with Christmas: Dealing with friends’ good news

Your work colleague might also have been trying for years to conceive.

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Anne O’Leary, Regional Lead Embryologist for Bourn Hall Essex

HFEA issues guidance about ‘Add-ons’ – additional treatments of benefit to some

Add-ons are optional treatments that may provide benefits to some groups of patients but do…

Egg freezing offers the potential of fertility preservation

Egg freezing: Key considerations and how to interpret clinic success rates

Key takeaways If you’re not ready to become pregnant right now but would like to…

Coping with Christmas: Getting back your emotional strength

Recognising that feelings such as uncertainty, sadness and frustration are natural and infertility is a type of grief can give you back your strength. 

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Meeting Santa with IVF twins is ‘a dream come true’ for Essex couple

The festive period will always hold a very special place in Cara and Steve’s hearts after finding out on Christmas Eve six years ago that Cara was pregnant following successful IVF at Bourn Hall Clinic in Wickford.

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Does your company have a Fertility Policy?

Your boss may be the last person you want to tell about your fertility problems…

Bedfordshire mum’s baby joy after ‘grief cycle’ of infertility

Bedfordshire mum’s baby joy after ‘grief cycle’ of infertility

“It was like a grief cycle every month, it was so draining,” says Megan from…

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Suffolk mum shares her story of joy following the ‘trauma of infertility’

“I still feel emotional when I think back to how sad I felt when we…

Dr Thanos Papathanasiou

#FertilityInMind We are with you for the journey – Dr Thanos Papathanasiou to speak at FSG 6th November

#FertilityInMind is the theme for Fertility Week this year and it will start with the…

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‘Doing our homework’ on employers’ fertility policies paid off

At first Helen’s employer had been resistant to her having paid time off for appointments but after a face-to-face meeting with her headteacher and HR representative they capitulated.  

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I took time off work for IVF after talking to my boss

Amber and Josh from Norfolk got together when they were 18 and started trying for…

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Joy continues for Bourn Hall grandmother

“IVF means everything to me,” says Angela who was an early patient at Bourn Hall….

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IVF ‘rainbow baby’ brought joy after heart-breaking loss

Zoe and Adam had devastatingly lost their first baby, a boy, at 34 weeks following…

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