For people who don’t qualify for NHS funding, IVF can be an expensive process, especially if more than one cycle is needed in order to conceive. For same-sex couples in England, the cost can be even greater…
Discover more about starting your family if you’re LGBT+, with information on donor insemination, surrogacy as well as other potential roads and support.
For the LGBTQ community, having a baby can involve a great deal more planning, organisation and expense, even if there are no obvious fertility issues involved.
While most clinics should be able to cater for a wide variety of needs, finding one where you feel comfortable and you know the clinic are used to catering for people on a similar fertility journey to you, will help you to feel more relaxed and confident about your treatment.
There’s no doubt that struggling to conceive, being diagnosed with infertility and then going through treatment, is emotionally, physically and mentally draining. Increased hope, followed by despair, cycles of medication and treatment, as well as medical appointments, can all take their toll.
In this and our other blogs, we can provide you with information and the answers to some of the questions that you may have during your fertility journey.
Fertilisation takes place when the egg and sperm join together to create a zygote. In natural conception, this usually occurs in the female’s fallopian tube, in the hours, or days, after sexual intercourse has taken place and around the time of ovulation.
Exercise is a great stress buster and reducing stress can have a positive impact on fertility and conception. Discover the best types of exercise when trying to conceive.
New research is continually taking place to help couples and individuals who are unable to conceive naturally, through intercourse. Egg donation is just one way that can help otherwise infertile people, to become pregnant.
The HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) is the UK regulator of fertility treatment and embryo research. They have recently released a new report called ‘Trends in Egg, Sperm and Embryo Donation’.