I have known Nicola since late 2009 when we met briefly at a fertility convention in central London and established professional contact soon after. Smuts Allsop enquired whether I would be willing to see couples whom she had seen professionally but required medical...
My husband and I conceived our first son with our first attempt spontaneously, and besides an operation at 16 weeks gestation to remove cysts on both ovaries which they thought to be malignant (and ended up being benign), the rest of the pregnancy and delivery were...
Drama and computer teacher Justine Mawdsley met husband Brian at 36. She was ready to have a baby, and they married the next year. She also took a term off work as she was feeling burned out after 15 years of teaching without a break. After a year of trying to fall...
This Hallmark tradition/big business sounds all very good on paper… everyone has a mother… oh no, wait, some mothers are no longer with us… Then there are those who are desperate to be a mother, but cannot. For them Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday as it is...
Dear Nicola, Just a short email to thank you from the bottom of my heart… following your advice at the end of last year, I postponed my IVF in December and had my transfer as close as possible to “my lucky date” (which was 15/2, my egg collection...
