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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 struggling to have a baby have the opportunity to be under the care of a gynaecology consultant with a specialist professional qualification rarely found in the city. Dr Sarah Armstrong, who runs the BCRM Bath satellite clinic at the Sulis Hospital in Peasedown St John, said, “I am in the unique position of holding subspecialist accreditation in reproductive medicine and surgery, which means I can offer my patients expert care in all areas of infertility.
Deciding to start or grow your family can be an exciting time, but some women face challenges in carrying a pregnancy to term. Recurrent miscarriages are upsetting and confusing, and it’s natural to wonder why it keeps happening.
