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Coping With Christmas 2024

Coping with Christmas: Make your own family traditions

A game plan can help you cope with family get-togethers

Dealing with friends' good news

Coping with Christmas: Dealing with friends’ good news

Your work colleague might also have been trying for years to conceive.

Coping with Christmas: Getting back your emotional strength

Recognising that feelings such as uncertainty, sadness and frustration are natural and infertility is a type of grief can give you back your strength. 

Wickford at Christmas 2024

Meeting Santa with IVF twins is ‘a dream come true’ for Essex couple

The festive period will always hold a very special place in Cara and Steve’s hearts after finding out on Christmas Eve six years ago that Cara was pregnant following successful IVF at Bourn Hall Clinic in Wickford.

Helen Turner

Does your company have a Fertility Policy?

Your boss may be the last person you want to tell about your fertility problems…

Bedfordshire mum’s baby joy after ‘grief cycle’ of infertility

Bedfordshire mum’s baby joy after ‘grief cycle’ of infertility

“It was like a grief cycle every month, it was so draining,” says Megan from…

Gemma and her three children (web)

Suffolk mum shares her story of joy following the ‘trauma of infertility’

“I still feel emotional when I think back to how sad I felt when we…

Dr Thanos Papathanasiou

#FertilityInMind We are with you for the journey – Dr Thanos Papathanasiou to speak at FSG 6th November

#FertilityInMind is the theme for Fertility Week this year and it will start with the…

Amelia and Helen with Edith and Douglas

‘Doing our homework’ on employers’ fertility policies paid off

At first Helen’s employer had been resistant to her having paid time off for appointments but after a face-to-face meeting with her headteacher and HR representative they capitulated.  

Amber Josh and Hallee feat

I took time off work for IVF after talking to my boss

Amber and Josh from Norfolk got together when they were 18 and started trying for…

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Patient reviews you can trust

Genuine experiences from real patients. See why so many trust us with their fertility care.

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“We went to an open evening at Bourn Hall Wickford and came away feeling really positive about the place. The staff were really friendly and the presentation was clear about the statistics regarding success rates and live birth rates; their data was very transparent. We came away feeling like we would really be looked after.”

Katy and Leigh are parents to Charlie after IVF

Patient 2023

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“We chose to make an appointment at Bourn Hall Wickford because of the favourable reviews. When we got there and met the staff they were just so lovely, making us feel welcome and explaining to us what tests would need to be done and what our options were; we just thought ‘yes, let’s get the ball rolling!”

Jess and Fran are mums to Nathan after IVF with donor sperm

Patient 2023