Articles
- Fertility Treatment and Work: Time Off, Your Rights, and What to Tell Your Employer
How to manage fertility treatment alongside a job: appointments and time off, what to tell your employer, your legal rights, and ways to carry the load.
- Telling Family and Friends About Fertility Treatment: Who to Tell and How
How to decide who and what to tell about fertility treatment, handle intrusive questions and unsolicited advice, and set boundaries that protect you.
- Diet and Lifestyle for Fertility: What the Evidence Actually Supports
An evidence-led, doctor-reviewed guide to diet and lifestyle for fertility: weight, smoking, alcohol, caffeine, folic acid, and which claims to ignore.
- Secondary Infertility: Trouble Conceiving After a Previous Child
Secondary infertility is difficulty conceiving after a previous birth. A doctor-reviewed guide to why it happens, who it affects, and what to do next.
- Egg Freezing Explained: How It Works, Success by Age, and Cost
A doctor-reviewed guide to egg freezing: how the process works, elective versus medical freezing, success rates by age, and what storage and cost involve.
- Donor Eggs, Sperm, and Embryos: When Donor Conception Is Used and How It Works
A doctor-reviewed guide to donor conception: when donor eggs, sperm, or embryos are used, the process, success rates, and legal considerations.
- ICSI Explained: What Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Is and When It Is Used
A doctor-reviewed guide to ICSI: what intracytoplasmic sperm injection is, when it is used (mainly male factor), how it differs from IVF, and how well it works.
- IVF vs IUI: How the Two Fertility Treatments Compare on Process, Suitability, Success and Cost
IVF vs IUI compared: what each treatment involves, who each one suits, how success per cycle differs by age, and what each typically costs in the UK.
- Recurrent Miscarriage: Causes, Tests, and Support After Repeated Loss
A doctor-reviewed guide to recurrent miscarriage: what counts as recurrent loss, the possible causes, the tests offered, and where to find support.
- Age and Fertility: How Age Affects Egg Quality, Quantity, and Your Chances
How age affects fertility: why egg quantity and quality decline, the sharper drop from the late 30s, and what ovarian reserve tests can and cannot tell you.
- Unexplained Infertility: What It Means, How Common It Is, and Your Options
What unexplained infertility means: a diagnosis of exclusion after normal tests, how common it is, and your options from timed intercourse to IUI and IVF.
- Male Factor Infertility: Sperm Problems, Tests, Causes and Treatment
A doctor-reviewed guide to male factor infertility: what the semen analysis measures, common causes of low sperm count, and treatments including ICSI.
- Endometriosis and Fertility: How It Affects Conception and Where IVF Fits
Doctor-reviewed guide to endometriosis and fertility: how it affects conception, why diagnosis is often delayed, your treatment options, and where IVF fits in.
- PCOS and Fertility: How It Affects Conception and What Can Help
How PCOS affects fertility: why ovulation becomes irregular, how it is diagnosed, and the treatment options from lifestyle to ovulation induction and IVF.
- Causes of Infertility: The Main Reasons Couples Struggle to Conceive
A doctor-reviewed guide to the main causes of infertility: ovulation problems, blocked tubes, endometriosis, male factor, age, and unexplained cases.
- Dealing With a Failed IVF Cycle: Grief, the Follow-Up Review, and Next Steps
How to cope with a failed IVF cycle: why the grief is valid, what the follow-up review with your clinic covers, and how to decide about trying again.
- The Two-Week Wait: Surviving the Days Between Embryo Transfer and Your Pregnancy Test
The two-week wait is the gap between embryo transfer and your IVF pregnancy test. Why symptoms mean little, why testing early misleads, and how to cope.
- Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET): How It Works and How It Differs From a Fresh Cycle
A doctor-reviewed guide to frozen embryo transfer (FET): what it is, why embryos are frozen, the step-by-step process, the timeline, and how success compares.
- Egg Collection and Embryo Transfer: What Happens, Sedation, and Recovery
What egg collection and embryo transfer involve in IVF: sedation, how long each takes, recovery, and what to expect afterwards, doctor-reviewed.
- IVF Medications and Injections: The Drugs, How They Work, and Side Effects
A doctor-reviewed guide to IVF medications and injections: the drug groups, how the injections work, common side effects, and OHSS warning signs.
- How Much Does IVF Cost? UK and US Prices Per Cycle
How much IVF costs per cycle in the UK and US: real price ranges, what is included versus extra, NHS funding and the postcode lottery, plus financing options.
- Fertility Tests and Investigations: What Gets Checked for Both Partners
A doctor-reviewed guide to fertility tests and investigations: semen analysis, ovulation and hormone bloods, AMH ovarian reserve, tubal checks, ultrasound.
- When to See a Doctor About Fertility: How Long to Try First
When to see a doctor about fertility: see your GP after about 12 months of trying, or 6 months if you are over 35, and sooner with known issues.
- How to Get Pregnant: Trying to Conceive Naturally
A doctor-reviewed guide to getting pregnant: the fertile window, how often to have sex, folic acid, how long it takes, and when to seek help.
- Coping With the Emotional Side of Fertility Treatment
A doctor-reviewed guide to the emotional side of fertility treatment: the two-week wait, the toll on relationships, failed cycles, and where to find support.
- IVF Success Rates: What the Numbers Really Mean
A doctor-reviewed guide to IVF success rates: how age affects your chances, why cycle and birth rates differ, and how to read clinic statistics honestly.
- IVF Explained: How In Vitro Fertilisation Works, Step by Step
A doctor-reviewed guide to how IVF works: the stages of a cycle from stimulation to transfer, how long it takes, the risks, the costs, and what to expect.