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Colleen Kennedy and Chris Weaver’s first baby was born in 2014, when she was 30 and he was 29: a natural conception after a year of trying. But when they were ready for baby number two the couple were dismayed that Colleen didn’t fall pregnant and perplexed when tests arranged by their GP couldn’t explain why. “Our lovely baby boy, Ren, was born at the end of June 2025 and we’re all enjoying him so much. Belle, who is now 10, is a proper ‘little mother’ and simply adores him.
People looking for the best fertility clinic to help them have a baby often struggle to make a choice when they discover that official success-rate information is at least a year out of date by the time it is publicly available. This dilemma was addressed at a recent open evening at BCRM (Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine) which treats patients from across Wales and the South West of England.
Staff at Bristol fertility clinic BCRM have received a timely thank-you from a Portishead couple who on Christmas Day will mark the first anniversary of the start of their IVF journey and are “over the moon” to be sharing this year’s festivities with their 14-week-old IVF “miracle baby” Noah.
Natalie and Andrew are among the one in 20 couples in the UK who experience secondary infertility, which is an inability to have a subsequent child after already having one or more, and NHS funding for fertility treatment is not available for a second baby.
Bath residents considering fertility treatment have been invited to attend a free open evening at Sulis Hospital in Peasedown St John for an ‘Expert Insights’ evening on Tuesday 25 November, where the focus will be on helping audience members understand the potential solutions available if they are struggling to conceive. Attendees will have the chance to meet three leading specialists from Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), hear from them about possible solutions to common problems, treatments available and their own holistic approach, and take part in an interactive question and answer session. BCRM’s satellite clinic in Bath is based at Sulis Hospital.
A pair of first-time IVF parents from Bristol credit work colleagues who introduced them to a fertility clinic where they got “answers we didn’t know we needed” for the arrival of their baby son. Georgie Jones, a nursery administrator from Bedminster Down, was 28 when she and her partner David Hackett, a client manager in financial services, started trying for a baby, and she said she was surprised when nothing happened.
Even now, Natalie* can hardly believe the miracle in front of her eyes. Every time she looks at her three-year-old daughter Amber she is reminded of the long, emotional journey that made her possible. “I just can’t really believe she’s here,” she says.
If you’re trying for a baby, you might already know that the journey doesn’t always unfold as smoothly as you’d hoped. Between tracking cycles, timing intimacy and managing expectations, it’s completely natural to feel overwhelmed at times.