Emma Lawson
IVF Patient & Founder
We tried to conceive for nearly four years and went through three rounds of IVF before our daughter arrived. Somewhere in the middle of it, the injections, the two-week waits, a failed cycle, the appointments where everyone used words I had to go home and look up, I realised how lost I felt despite all the information out there.
The clinical facts existed, but they were scattered and cold. What I couldn’t find was someone a step ahead, explaining honestly and in plain language what the process is actually like, what the numbers really mean, and how to keep yourself together through it.
Discover Circle is where I’ve gathered all of that, from my own years on this road and from others still on it. Every article is read for accuracy by a consultant in reproductive medicine. I’m not a clinician, just someone who came through it and wants you kinder to yourself than I managed to be.
Articles by Emma Lawson
- Age and Fertility: How Age Affects Egg Quality, Quantity, and Your Chances
- Biochemical Pregnancy After IVF: When a Positive Test Turns Negative
- Coping With the Emotional Side of Fertility Treatment
- How to Choose a Fertility Clinic: What to Compare and What to Ask
- Dealing With a Failed IVF Cycle: Grief, the Follow-Up Review, and Next Steps
- Diet and Lifestyle for Fertility: What the Evidence Actually Supports
- Donor Eggs, Sperm, and Embryos: When Donor Conception Is Used and How It Works
- Blocked Fallopian Tubes and Fertility: Tests, Surgery, Hydrosalpinx and IVF
- Early Pregnancy After IVF: hCG Blood Tests, the First Scan, and Leaving Your Clinic
- Causes of Infertility: The Main Reasons Couples Struggle to Conceive
- Egg Collection and Embryo Transfer: What Happens, Sedation, and Recovery
- Egg Freezing Explained: How It Works, Success by Age, and Cost
- Embryo Grading Explained: What Day 3 and Day 5 Grades Mean for Your Transfer
- Endometriosis and Fertility: How It Affects Conception and Where IVF Fits
- Fertility Tests and Investigations: What Gets Checked for Both Partners
- Fertility Treatment for Female Couples and Single Women: IUI, IVF, Reciprocal IVF and the Law
- Fertility Treatment and Work: Time Off, Your Rights, and What to Tell Your Employer
- Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET): How It Works and How It Differs From a Fresh Cycle
- How to Get Pregnant: Trying to Conceive Naturally
- How Much Does IVF Cost? UK and US Prices Per Cycle
- ICSI Explained: What Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Is and When It Is Used
- IVF Add-Ons: What They Are, What They Cost, and Whether They Work
- IVF Explained: How In Vitro Fertilisation Works, Step by Step
- IVF Medications and Injections: The Drugs, How They Work, and Side Effects
- IVF Success Rates: What the Numbers Really Mean
- IVF vs IUI: How the Two Fertility Treatments Compare on Process, Suitability, Success and Cost
- Male Factor Infertility: Sperm Problems, Tests, Causes and Treatment
- Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS): Symptoms, Risk, and When It's Serious
- PCOS and Fertility: How It Affects Conception and What Can Help
- Recurrent Miscarriage: Causes, Tests, and Support After Repeated Loss
- Secondary Infertility: Trouble Conceiving After a Previous Child
- Telling Family and Friends About Fertility Treatment: Who to Tell and How
- The Two-Week Wait: Surviving the Days Between Embryo Transfer and Your Pregnancy Test
- Unexplained Infertility: What It Means, How Common It Is, and Your Options
- When to See a Doctor About Fertility: How Long to Try First