Egg vitrification. A big word for a tiny little thing. Egg vitrification is the process of freezing the eggs so that they can be used at a later date. As new IVF methods have more than doubled success rates, the freezing of eggs for use in fertility treatment is no longer seen as ‘experimental’. [...]
In 1978 Louise Brown, the world’s very first IVF baby was born. Since then hundreds of thousands of babies have been born as a result of the fertility treatment. IVF is a complicated procedure and at the Cyprus IVF Centre our highly skilled team led by our doctors are experienced in every single aspect [...]
The view of a traditional, nuclear, family of a heterosexual couple with 2.4 children has long been an outdated concept. For over ten years now fertility medicine has been providing same sex couples with exactly the same access to fertility treatment as heterosexual couples. Recent changes in the UK civil partnership law also mean [...]
Statistics show that in the UK alone, there are more than two million single parents. They make up around a quarter of all families with children, a figure that has remained stable for over a decade. Sometimes single parenthood happens by circumstance, and sometimes by choice. Increasingly, women are choosing not to let the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
