An IVF Journey: Day 6 – An update

Posted on November 2, 2015July 5, 2018

Baby Arian Arian Kit Owen was born in May 2014 at Colchester General Hospital.

Si and I absolutely love being Arian’s parents. He is a fantastic little boy with loads of character and a very adventurous nature. We think he’ll probably be an explorer when he’s older as he loves climbing!

We think he’s the most gorgeous boy in the world – but, of course, we may be a little biased…!

Us with Arian last summer 2014

The three of us in Cornwall this summer

Arian up a tree whilst in Sweden recently

Arian 13 months _ about a month ago

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Claire Owen kindly agreed to share her journey to parenthood as part of National Fertility Awareness Week, to help others know they are not alone in their struggle to conceive and give hope to those who think IVF will never work for them. Her full story is available as a Kindle e-book from Amazon here.

If you are experiencing fertility problems or know of someone who is and would like some advice please ring Bourn Hall’s central patient enquiries number – 01954 717 210.

To find out more about National Fertility Awareness Week see their website.

Also if you’ve been inspired by reading Claire’s story and would like to share your own Bourn Hall experience then please do get in touch.

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3 days ago

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6 days ago

Thank you Leanne - love the t-shirts.

He's four 🙂
I know I say this every year but I will never be able to thank you enough.
we now know he's going to be our only miracle and that's fine with us. we are among the lucky people who gained from the NHS funded cycles before they were so cruelly removed.
I hope someone somewhere can get this brought back in before it's too late for someone else who otherwise would not be able to afford the treatment needed.
thank you X
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7 days ago

Congratulations the Wooleners - she is so sweet in that hat.

Layna writes: "We cannot thank you enough for our precious little girl! Born on Tuesday 27th November at 23:45. Weighing 8lb 8oz.
We had IVF with ICSI at your clinic in Colchester."
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1 week ago

The human impact of the withdrawal of NHS funding by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG was discussed this morning on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Sandie Smith CEO Healthwatch in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough said that the cut in funding wasn't justified by the business case:

"The business case didn’t make a huge amount of sense to us because it would end up costing more in the long run as people experienced more mental health issues and also people are going to go abroad for treatment," (This increases the chance of multiple premature births).

"So actually it really wasn't a huge saving when you look at the human impact of this. We will be pushing the CCG to reverse the move at the review in April, and we are looking for people to send us their feedback"

Bourn Hall holds the contract for NHS funded treatment across the east of England but as CEO Mike Macnamee commented none of those patients come from Cambridgeshire.

He said: "it’s a scandal that the NICE guidelines are not adopted fully throughout the UK, which would entitle patients to three cycles of IVF, and up to three frozen as well. If you follow the NICE guidelines you get singleton pregnancies which are much safer for the mother and baby."

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IVF funding and the impact on couples since NHS funding for IVF was withdrawn by CambridgeshireCCG was discussed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

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2 weeks ago

So good to hear from Krystyna - one of patients that received Level 2 fertility care from our team in Norwich - this is treatment with medication such as clomid that can boost the chances of natural conception (ie not IVF).

Krstyna writes; "Thank you so much to the team at Norwich ( Wymondham) for helping us to have our lil lady..

"Alice Mary-Jane was born on Thursday 15th November at 9:42am weighing 7lb 9oz.

We had help via clomid and this helped to reset everything."

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