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Fertility nurse consultant, Paula Bot, a recent addition to the specialist fertility team at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), has quoted the opportunity to train the next generation of fertility nurses as one of the highlights of her new role.

The Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) has expanded its team with the addition of Dr Hadeel Alkharouf as its latest Clinical Fellow in reproductive medicine.

“We are profoundly grateful for the miracle that is IVF and the expertise and care given to us by the team at the BCRM. Seeing those two strong heartbeats on the initial early scans was like a dream come true.

Bristol-based fertility treatment providers BCRM are appealing for local men to donate sperm for the newly-launched sperm bank at their state-of-the-clinic at Aztec West.

Today July 25, is World Embryologist Day, which celebrates the birth in 1978 of Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first IVF baby. We celebrate the outstanding team of scientists - embryologists, andrologists, STP embryologists and IVF technologists at BCRM and the progress made in the last 40 years.

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JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY ! Following on from Pride Month, would-be same-sex and solo parents who will require donor sperm to conceive a baby can learn more about the process pathways to parenthood at a free open evening at the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) at Aztec West.

A couple from Bristol who were struggling to have a baby now have a three-year old son and a five-month-old daughter who probably would not have been born were it not for preimplantation genetic testing (PGT).

A group was brought together through a public appeal by the clinic last year which aimed to find the earliest people conceived and born in Bristol as the result of IVF, and attendees included some ‘brave and remarkable pioneers’ according to BCRM’s medical director Valentine Akande.