Imagine the layout of the Team Miracle laboratory with our doctors at the Cyprus IVF Centre. In your mind’s eye it probably doesn’t contain anything beyond some equipment, medical staff, lights and maybe an incubator or two. It probably isn’t very big either. However, that laboratory layout and design is absolutely crucial to the [...]
It is often the way in life that sometimes things happen when you least expect them – and sometimes they don’t. And that was exactly the way it happened for Rachel. Growing up, she assumed that she would have children in the same way that most people do. It was something that could happen [...]
Being able to choose the gender of your child is something which has attracted an increasing amount of debate over the last few years. Historically, this has never been an option but with the advances being made in modern medicine, it is now clinically possible. In fact it is not just possible, but it is [...]
Infertility, whether explained or not, can have a huge impact on the happiness and wellbeing of couples and even their relationship stability. Procreation is a base instinct for the human species and not being able to fulfil it can result in misery, loss of identity and a feeling of failure. This is why the IVF [...]
At the age of 19 and mid-way through my degree in Law, I gave birth to my first daughter. It’s fair to say that she wasn’t the most planned baby, but I never regretted it for an instant. The sheer joy and delight she brought immediately to my life made me certain that one-day I [...]
Three parents, one baby. It’s not something that logically goes together. And yet - could this be one of the most important advances in reproductive medicine, ever? In what is a huge step for the world of assisted conception, the House of Commons in the UK has just voted to allow the genetic material of [...]
It’s fair to say that most committed couples assume that they will become parents one day. This is a mix of cultural and social norms, and personal expectations. The procreation of the species is a base instinct hardwired into humans and it can be very difficult to ignore. According to reproductive medicine sources, infertility is [...]
