fertility matters

This weekend's Fertility Show was very busy - more than 3,600 visitors over the weekend - and it was lovely to meet some of you and to...

If you’re going to The Fertility Show at London’s Olympia tomorrow, do come and say hello.  I’m speaking at 11.45 about choosing a clinic,...

It may sound incredible, but apparently people are having to come up with ever more inventive ways to fund their fertility treatment in th...

When plans for an IVF lottery were announced here in the UK, the overall response was far from positive with questions raised about the et...

It's hard not to get excited about stories like today's news of Japanese scientists successfully creating embryos from skin cells wh...

Sometimes it can seem as if anywhere outside London gets forgotten when it comes to fertility-related events, but for anyone living in North...

It's nearly that time of year again... I've just been sent posters and flyers for The Fertility Show , which this year runs over th...

I've just been reading about a "miracle" birth in the States, where a woman has given birth to quintuplets after fertility tre...

As you may remember reading on this blog a few months ago (yes, we're often ahead with the news...), research for the National Inferti...

If you ever think there’s a lack of sensitivity towards infertility, you should perhaps be grateful that you don’t happen to live in Malta...

I knew when I set out to write a piece for the Guardian about including infertility into the school sex education curriculum that it was a...

I was hugely heartened by the recent research, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility (awful title but it's an academic journa...

Anyone who has any personal experience of IVF will know that our funding situation in the UK is patchy at best, but the report released from...

I've meant to tell you about the meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infertility for weeks, but am only now finally gettin...

I was reading a blog post the other day that referred to people with fertility problems as "infertiles" and it made me think about...

Have you noticed how every IVF story begins with a couple's "desperate bid" for a child? Perhaps that should be every cliche-r...

If you haven't seen this video yet, it's worth watching - just to reassure yourself that you're not the only person to have com...

Another day, another IVF scare story... or at least that's how it sometimes feels.  We're forever being told that this procedure or ...

Those of you who have ever been to a fertility clinic will know exactly what I am talking about - the place where you are sent to "prod...

I ended up spending a lot of time last night in a hospital waiting room (with a suspected eye problem which turned out to be absolutely fine...