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Focus on: PCOS Awareness Month
It is estimated that as many as 1 in 10 women in the UK suffer from PCOS, making it one of the most common causes of infertility. According to our consultant Dr Arpita Ray, Regional Lead Consultant, women with PCOS may find it more challenging to conceive, due to an imbalance of sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone, which may lead to irregular or absent periods. Other symptoms of this increasingly common condition may include ovarian cysts, acne, excess hair and obesity, but also none of these.
September is PCOS Awareness Month, with PCOS charities and organisations, such as Verity in the UK and PCOS Awareness Association in the US, aiming to raise awareness and increase understanding of the condition. If you would like advice on how PCOS may impact fertility do get in touch.
Happy birthday xxAlways be thankful to Bourn and their amazing staff my baby boy turned 4 yesterday! Amazing giving any couple a chance at parenthood #blessed #greatestgift
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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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."
Thank you again! - The Wooleners
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."
Bourn Hall provides free fertility consultation and options that enable free iVF bit.ly/2U0GLHZ
IVF funding - some options including free IVF - Bourn Hall Clinic
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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.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."
If you would like to know how to improve your natural fertility then we offer a free fertility consultation that would give this type of advice. bit.ly/2A45PFU