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When in her mother’s womb, a baby has about 5-7 million eggs by the fifth month of pregnancy. After this time, the number of eggs begin to decrease. Such that by the time of birth she only has 2 million eggs left in the ovaries.

For me the hardest thing about having IVF as a single woman was making the decision to contact the fertility clinic - BCRM to ask about the IVF process. I should never have worried, as every member of the BCRM team was helpful, caring and completely non-judgmental.

Dr Valentine Akande and Paul Wilson will lead the transition of North Bristol NHS Trust’s Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine – BCRM into a private Fertility Service and IVF Clinic as from 1 March 2018.

Having worked in the field of gynaecology for the past 13 years I knew from an early stage that I was destined for a career in the fertility field.