As the Christmas festivities get underway, we want to say a massive heartfelt thank you for your commitment to helping a couple with their dreams to have a family in the New Year. I’m sure you can imagine that Christmas is a very difficult time for couples battling fertility problems and that’s even more so […]
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To all our amazing egg donors out there
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BBC Breakfast interview with Altrui on payment for egg donors
You will probably have heard that on Wednesday 18th October the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced changes to the donation regulations and Altrui was right at the forefront. As an acknowledged fertility expert, Alison was invited onto BBC Breakfast TV to discuss the impending changes with Sian Williams and Bill Turnbull. In fact […]
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What it feels like to find an egg donor
“Having an egg donor has changed our world in two very profound ways. Firstly it allowed me the chance to conceive for the first time in my life, and take a step closer to our dreams, not just of holding our own baby, but actually having a noisy, maddening, loving, family of our own to […]
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Altruism is good for your health
Looking for ways to find women who might become egg donors I came across this article in Psychologies Magazine (that unfortunately cannot be found anymore) and found that it resonated with what so many of our egg donors have said, and felt, about helping a couple start a family. Essentially it is “QI” – ‘quite […]
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Altruistic egg donors are special
An article was written in ‘BioNews’ recently (‘Listen to Donors’) about how important it is to value and respect altruistic egg donors. This is something that we at Altrui feel passionately about. It is so easy to give the impression that egg donors have to fit in with the time scales of the clinics, and […]
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From an egg donor to a live birth
Altrui has been hard at work trying to recruit egg donors for such genuinely nice couples who have really been to hell and back trying to start a family, and slowly but surely we are winning. We now have a database of over 300 women who have all shown an interest in how to become […]
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10-15 eggs is the ideal number
“A study of over 400,000 IVF treatment cycles in the UK has found a ’strong association’ between the number of eggs retrieved prior to a woman undergoing IVF and live birth rate. The findings suggest that chances of a live birth increased with the number of eggs collected up to the number of 15, after […]
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Stress does not affect IVF outcome
For the past 20 years working with hundreds, if not thousands, of people undergoing IVF I have always maintained that stress doesn’t affect the outcome, whether they are using their own or donor eggs. Recent research supports this and has found that there is no correlation between IVF success rates and stress levels, see the […]
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Have your say on egg donation
In January the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) launched a three month consultation programme which is open to everybody to give their opinion about egg and sperm donation. You may have read in the press that there is a current debate underway about various aspects of donation, but in particular whether egg donors should […]
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A possibility for some egg recipients?
It is interesting how often fertility patients themselves end up suggesting ways that others could potentially increase their chances of a successful outcome to IVF. Some of the alternative options may well not have been suggested by clinicians treating them at another unit, as highlighted in the case of the couple who learnt from another […]
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