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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