IVF is expensive but you don’t usually hear about anyone who steals to pay for IVF. A Scottish woman was so desperate to expand her family that she embezzled more than £92,000 from the company she worked for, so she could pay for expensive IVF treatments. 37-year-old Debbie Stevenson was a bookkeeper at The Pitreavie […]
Sarah Jessica Parker, star of ‘Sex and the City’, joins many female celebrities who have come forward to share their stories about infertility and their journey through IVF treatment. Let’s take a look at Sarah Jessica Parker’s IVF journey. Parker, like many women suffered from secondary infertility. This is when you struggle to conceive after […]
While on a cost-cutting spree, the UK NHS has made many changes to the criteria for IVF funding over the last few years. The latest cutback means that NHS IVF funding may be refused if your husband is overweight. Does the weight of the male partner significantly affect chances of IVF success and is this […]
Celine Dion’s infertility struggle and her long journey of IVF treatments is certainly an inspiring story to read. The ‘Titanic’ singer had much passion and determination to start and expand her family, but she had to undergo numerous failed attempts at IVF until she finally succeeded. Celine had always been eager to start a family […]
Nicole Kidman’s IVF journey was rather difficult as she struggled with infertility over several years and is known to have experienced a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, and also faced difficulties in her IVF treatment, before being able to conceive. Despite her difficult journey, Nicole Kidman is a mother to four children, a son and daughter who […]
The annual fertility rate in the US is being widely reported as being at an all-time low. However, is this really the full story? There is no denying that annual fertility rates have declined as the ratio of women in fertile ages to the number of babies being born annually is at an all time […]
Cuts to the UK’s NHS fertility service have created a ‘postcode lottery’ for IVF treatment as patients in some areas are just offered funding for one IVF cycle or sometimes none at all. The number of cycles that you may have funded by the NHS can vary considerably depending upon where you live. Many women […]
She was conceived in 1992, born in 2017. Emma Wren Gibson, born from an embryo frozen for 24 years, is a miracle to her mother. Tina and her husband, Benjamin Gibson, adopted Emma’s embryo at the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) in Knoxville, Tennessee, earlier this year. The embryo had been donated by a couple […]
A fertility clinic’s failure to ensure proper screening has resulted for an IVF baby to be born with cystic fibrosis—an inherited disorder in which the lungs, digestive system, and other organs are severely affected. This is the most serious of 540 other blunders made by IVF clinics in the UK this year. What caused IVF […]
Meghan King Edmonds, star of the Real Housewives of Orange County, has announced via her blog that she underwent another cycle of IVF in the summer and is now expecting her second child. The 33-year-old television personality also revealed that she and husband, Jim Edmonds, are expecting a baby boy and their one-year-old daughter is ready to don […]
