An article published yesterday (26th February) in ‘Nature Medicine’ holds out exciting possibilities for the future of fertility treatment in women. It has always been thought that women were born with their full complement of potential eggs in their ovaries and that these steadily declined throughout life until falling to zero at the menopause. However, […]
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Stem cells that can create human eggs
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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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Jilly’s story as an egg donor: injections
Injection day one The day of starting to inject myself was the next day. A Saturday, which meant I wasn’t in a mad rush to get my little boy up and off to grandmas whilst trying to make myself look presentable for work as is the usual weekday mêlée. I was relaxed and set out […]
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Jilly’s story as an egg donor: drugs
I’ve just received a call from one of the nurses at Guys. Unfortunately the nasal spray has been taken off the market so in its place I have to take the same drugs in an injection form. This is slightly daunting news. I know that there are some drugs to be injected later in the process but […]
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