Sperm created in a lab offers new hope

Sperm has been created in a lab for the first time using stem cells and a complicated process of growth and development the news reports today . It is nothing short of miraculous !

What amazes me is the speed at which all of this is developing , and new avenues explored . When we started our journey to create a family I remember peoples reaction to us having to go through IVF , this unknown , untalked about phenomena . That was only seven an… Continue

'Fertility Coaching'
Can it help women conceive?
The Independent 24th June, 2008
When Anya Sizer was enduring IVF, her sessions of 'Fertility coaching' were a lifeline. Emma Jones reports on this new alternative therapy

Anya Sizer's garden is scattered with toys – just the way she always wanted it. Yet there were moments when this happy scene with Hope, five, and Barney, 22 months, was a distant dream. Soon after marrying at 23, she and her husband Damion started trying for a baby. But when mon… Continue

I am currently reading the fantastic book "when you are falling , Dive " lessons in the art of living by Mark Matousek . A book of interviews with people who have faced or are facing some of lifes toughest challenges and how they deal with the emotional effects .

One of the chapters I have just read is an interview with Daniel Goleman , the man who wrote Emotional intelligence , and who is now doing a lot of work on what he has coined Social intelligence . What struck me in this , is the intera… Continue

Its been a week ( and yes it is only wednesday ..! ) of Infertility in the news . Stories of Embryo mix ups , reports on stress and infertility and a report from the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists re womens age and Infertility .

I did a radio interview about the ethics of Embryo transfers and how safe the clinics are ,for a station on Monday . The information was handlled really well I thought by the presenters and the other guest speaker was fantastic as a medically trained… Continue

I kept a diary during my journey through Infertility and wrote in it most days . It became such a huge help in getting the feelings out in a safe and easy way as well as being a useful record of where we had come from .

On one entry , in bright red pen I had written

" I am determined to live each day as fully as possible and not to let this thing rob me of the here and now !! "

I am sure the red writing was written easily and the sentiments , though strong , would be tested to the limits , ho… Continue