Category: History of IVF
Five decades at Bourn Hall – friendship and family
Posted - March 15, 2021
Early IVF baby now campaigner for fertility education
Posted - January 13, 2021
‘Precious baby’ helped to secure the future of fertility treatment through the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Posted - December 1, 2020
Nobel Prize Medal awarded to IVF pioneer to be auctioned at Christie’s
Posted - June 18, 2020
The ‘start-up’ story of financing the world’s first IVF clinic
Posted - March 23, 2020
On International Women’s Day we remember Lesley Brown
Posted - March 5, 2020
Home of Patrick Steptoe, ‘Father of IVF’, gets a Blue Plaque
Posted - May 4, 2019
Jamie Facer-Childs: the world’s first twin ‘frostie’
Posted - March 21, 2019
Happy 40th Birthday Alastair MacDonald, the world’s first IVF boy
Posted - January 14, 2019
When I was your age something world-changing happened that shaped my life
Posted - August 24, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates her 40th birthday at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 25, 2018
The story of IVF: 6 million babies later celebrated at Science Museum
Posted - July 22, 2018
Jean Purdy IVF pioneer celebrated with memorial service
Posted - July 21, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates the life of Jean Purdy with her living legacy
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40 in 2018 – the treatment continues to improve
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40: First blastocyst created
Posted - July 1, 2018
Dr Kay Elder – ‘A life in Glass’
Posted - June 6, 2018
Icelandic couple’s emotional journey 30 years after IVF with frozen embryos
Posted - February 16, 2018
Robert Edwards, co-father of IVF, interviewed by Liz O’Donnell, an early Bourn Hall patient
Posted - May 26, 2017
Why me? Infertility and the stubborn Yorkshireman
Posted - May 23, 2017
First frozen embryo baby home from the cold
Posted - March 7, 2017
Baby, look at you now!
Posted - December 9, 2016
Photographer of world’s first IVF egg retires
Posted - September 23, 2016
Pioneering IVF patient returns to Bourn Hall
Posted - May 11, 2016
Louise Brown: “My life as the world’s first test-tube baby” – autobiography launched at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 23, 2015
Louise Brown is 36, Bourn Hall remembers IVF pioneers
Posted - July 25, 2014
Alastair MacDonald: The world’s first IVF boy celebrates 35th birthday
Posted - January 14, 2014
The Bourn Hall Legacy – 35 years of IVF
Posted - July 25, 2013
Tributes to Professor Sir Robert Edwards
Posted - April 12, 2013
Sad Loss Of Lesley Brown – First IVF Mother
Posted - June 20, 2012
We’re continuing the conversation around #mentalhealth today by discussing how difficult it can be to stay positive during your infertility journey.
In our guest blog for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, independent fertility counsellor Jackie Stewart says that infertility is a grieving process and understanding this can help give you back your strength.
Read more here: moredetails.uk/3tBz3EO
Mental Health Awareness getting back your strength - Bourn Hall Clinic
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Recognising that feelings such as uncertainty, sadness and frustration are natural and infertility is a type of grief can give you back your strength.This week is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek.
The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is #ConnectWithNature .
This year the Mental Health Foundation has pulled together evidence that demonstrates the powerful benefits of nature for our mental health.
Dealing with fertility issues can be tough and it can have a big impact on your mental health. Sometimes it helps to take some time out in nature. We would love to see you support this year’s Mental Health Awareness week by sharing with us the way that you are connecting with nature.
Tag your images with #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #ConnectWithNature #Wearefamily
We're excited to be rolling out the first phase of our roadmap back to normality after Covid-19.
From today, we will be allowing partners to attend pregnancy scans, insemination and embryo transfer. Screening and isolation measures remain unchanged.
There will be more to follow and we will keep patients updated but for now, we hope that this will be a welcomed change.
More information can be found here: moredetails.uk/covid-19
We love hearing from you once your treatment is over and it’s even nicer to receive updates on some of the babies and children within the Bourn Hall family.
We’d like to wish Noah a very happy first birthday. His mum and dad, Charmaine & Darrel Fox, waited six long years for Noah to arrive, but look at him now!
Happy Birthday from all of us at Bourn Hall Noah!
#wearefamily
Don't miss out on our monthly free virtual events this month.
Our Support Group gives attendees the opportunity to meet other people who empathise with the issues they are experiencing. You’ll also be able to ask questions to our independent counsellor, Jackie.
Remember, you don't have to be a patient to attend any of our events.
Register for your place here: moredetails.uk/2Duln6U
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