Focus on: Egg freezing and fertility preservation
Freezing your eggs or sperm ahead of a medical treatment or other event that can impact your fertility; keeps your options open if you later want a family. Bourn Hall has recently launched a new Cryopreservation Service.
World Menopause Day 2023 – fertility options
Posted - October 17, 2023
Thinking about freezing your eggs?
Posted - June 20, 2023
World Embryologist Day – a day in the life of an embryologist
Posted - July 24, 2020
Special day for mother with triplets four years apart
Posted - March 28, 2019
Egg bank to reduce waiting times for donated eggs
Posted - March 25, 2019
Women facing surgery for endometriosis should be offered egg freezing
Posted - March 23, 2019
Jamie Facer-Childs: the world’s first twin ‘frostie’
Posted - March 21, 2019
He survived cancer now his IVF baby meets first ‘Test-Tube Baby’ Louise Brown
Posted - July 28, 2018
Increased support for transgender fertility preservation
Posted - June 28, 2018
Bourn Hall patient Tanya beats cancer and prepares to run in the London Marathon
Posted - April 11, 2018
FET baby is a miracle on so many levels
Posted - March 16, 2018
Egg freezing for employees
Posted - October 16, 2014
“Where do babies come from?”: A guest blog by Susan Imrie
Posted - March 11, 2014
Thank you to Kelly for sharing this lovely photo of Harlan-Ray celebrating his first birthday! 🎂![]()
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IVF stands for in vitro fertilisation – a technique available to help people who are struggling with infertility to have a baby.![]()
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Our founders pioneered the IVF technique more than 45 years ago and won a Nobel Prize for their work. The world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in July 1978.![]()
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During IVF, eggs and sperm are brought together in a carefully controlled environment to generate high-quality embryos. Once the embryos have grown, one or two of them are transferred into the uterus.![]()
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Find out more about our treatments here: moredetails.uk/3ykK54m
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as ‘a disease of the male or female reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse’.![]()
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As many as one in six couples may have difficulty conceiving.![]()
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If you’re worried about your fertility, or simply want to know more about your ability to get pregnant, contact us to order a fertility test kit, or complete our free fertility self-assessment here: moredetails.uk/3QtTLF2
Yesterday we posted details about the latest exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.![]()
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It explores what makes a family today and the impact that families have on us. ![]()
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We’d love you to send us a photo that shows your ‘real family’.![]()
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We’ll pick three entries at random and each will win a copy of Susan Golombock’s book, Real Families.![]()
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Read more about the exhibition here: moredetails.uk/3RnRv2x
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A new exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ‘Real Families: Stories of Change’, asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of contemporary artists.![]()
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The exhibition features one of the original glass desiccators – part of an early incubator of the type used by the IVF pioneers, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards, and Jean Purdy, to conceive the world’s first test-tube baby Louise Brown.![]()
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Real Families: Stories of Change is free to visit at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge until 7 January 2024. ![]()
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Find out more here: moredetails.uk/3RnRv2x ![]()
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Image shows Louise Brown holding the desiccator at the launch of her autobiography at Bourn Hall in 2015.
Real Families – IVF’s role in the story of change - Bourn Hall Clinic
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A glass desiccator used to conceive first 'test-tube' baby Louise Brown is part of 'Real Families: Stories of Change' exhib at Fitzwilliam
