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Advances in modern medicine have created numerous assisted reproductive technologies to help people overcome fertility challenges. Two such treatments are in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intra-cytoplasmic sperm injections (ICSI). But what’s the difference between them, and which one is right for you? In this article, we explain each treatment in more detail, highlighting how they differ and why one may suit you better. Keep reading to learn all you need to know about IVF and ICSI.

Mum of two Dominique Durrant is keen to encourage people to extend kindness to expectant mothers, and to avoid jumping to conclusions about why a couple doesn’t have a family. “You see pregnant women every day,” she said, “but you never know what they might have gone through to get there – for many of us it is a long hard journey. Dominique, a hospital admissions co-ordinator from Gloucester, offered to share her story after she and husband Robert, a roofer, attended Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine’s celebration of 40 years of ‘Made in Bristol’ babies.

We have had a long road and it has been a complicated one.

Working as a member of the team who helped bring her IVF baby into being means that Abbie Walker’s feelings about her employer are not those of a typical employee.

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