Conception

Time for a break

An IVF Journey

People may think what we're planning is silly, but it's a necessary step on the road to recovery and healing.

Womb transplant patient loses baby

A woman who was the first to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor has had her pregnancy terminated after the embryo showed no heart beat, doctors in Turkey said

Freezing holds key to fertility

Freezing their ova has allowed women to take control of their fertility.

IVF: The great leveller

There's one thing women going through IVF can rely on: each other. Even when the women in question is the controversial Samantha Brick.

What not to say

The woman grabbed my hand and said, ''It's a tragedy you never got around to having children. It's the most wonderful thing a woman can do."

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Trying to conceive

How IVF works

Ever wondered what the IVF process looks like? We have some amazing photos from a lab.

The result

Monday we’d found out that my hCG wasn’t high enough to be considered officially pregnant and were told we’d have to wait until Friday. It was the week from hell.

Fertility

Freezing your eggs

Women in their early 30s should start thinking about freezing their eggs now, fertility experts say.

IVF: Waiting game

The morning after egg collection I received the all-important phone call, telling me if my eggs had fertilised overnight.

Adoption

Finding my birth family

As I found out more from my adoption file, I found myself starting to doubt my birth parents.

You'd think, from all the forced adoption documentaries and TV series flying around, that my birth mother Bonnie would have been thrilled to have me back in her life. THRILLED. Not so much, as it happens.

Miscarriage