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Following on from Pride Month celebrations in Bristol , would-be same-sex who will require donor sperm to conceive a baby can learn more about the process pathways to parenthood at a free open evening on Wednesday, 16th July, at the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) at Aztec West. Leading fertility consultants will specifically address becoming pregnant via sperm donation which is likely to be of special interest to female same-sex couples and would-be solo mums.
When Kimberley and Kirsty became a couple in spring 2022, Kim already had two daughters, now aged nine and five, from a previous relationship. But Kirsty knew from the start that she also wanted to have a baby and it would have been a deal-breaker for her if Kim hadn’t felt the same way. Fortunately that wasn’t a problem: Kim was just as keen for the pair to have a baby of their own, and three years on they now have that baby, thanks to the miracle of IVF and the efforts of the team at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM). Kirsty, a nurse associate at Musgrove Park, and Kim, who works in a tea-room in Taunton - the town where both women were born and raised - started investigating fertility clinics after they’d been together for about a year. Kim said they picked BCRM because they were impressed with their track record, found them very informative and easy to deal with on the phone, and were happy with the way they put them at ease when they visited.
For many couples who have the unwelcome surprise of finding that if they want to have a baby they will need to pay for fertility treatment, the funding of that treatment can present an additional pressure at an already difficult time.
While receiving cancer treatment can be life-saving, it can also have adverse side effects on your health. Some cancer treatments may affect your fertility, for example, which can make it difficult to have children afterwards without support from fertility treatments. However, there are many fertility preservation methods available for men and women to use during this challenging chapter of their lives. In this blog post, we explain how cancer treatments affect your fertility and explore the various options you can use to preserve it for use in the future.
This blog post explains complementary holistic fertility treatments, highlighting how the science stacks up and whether they actually work. Learn all you need and more with the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine.
In this blog post, we explain PCOS, the symptoms to watch for, how it affects fertility and what you can do to increase your chances of becoming pregnant. Discover all you need to know about PCOS and fertility with the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine.
A Bristol man who has survived testicular cancer says he owes the joys of fatherhood to the miracle of modern medical science which allowed him to freeze his sperm before he had even met the woman who would eventually become the mother of his baby.
