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For most people Mother’s Day is a lovely time of celebration, but if you have been trying unsuccessfully for a baby and are not yet lucky enough to be a mum, it can trigger a range of painful feelings.

Egg donation in the UK is coming under fresh scrutiny as a parliamentary inquiry examines whether young women are being targeted by advertising or financial incentives, and whether current safeguards are sufficient.

A new pathway for patients receiving fertility treatment has been launched at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), providing an innovative single point of access to make their experience as seamless as possible. Each patient is now given a dedicated ‘fertility care co-ordinator’ to act as their designated contact, affording direct access to the consultant, nurses and other medical professionals who are treating them.

Egg donors are amazing women. Full Stop. You will feel proud of this incredible gift that you have given. You will have helped others to start the family that they have dreamt of. You will have had a fertility check up. You will be compensated with £985 for your time and expenses.

Colleen Kennedy and Chris Weaver’s first baby was born in 2014, when she was 30 and he was 29: a natural conception after a year of trying. But when they were ready for baby number two the couple were dismayed that Colleen didn’t fall pregnant and perplexed when tests arranged by their GP couldn’t explain why. “Our lovely baby boy, Ren, was born at the end of June 2025 and we’re all enjoying him so much. Belle, who is now 10, is a proper ‘little mother’ and simply adores him.

People looking for the best fertility clinic to help them have a baby often struggle to make a choice when they discover that official success-rate information is at least a year out of date by the time it is publicly available. This dilemma was addressed at a recent open evening at BCRM (Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine) which treats patients from across Wales and the South West of England.

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.

Over the festive season we will be providing our routine services on working days however the clinic will be closed on the Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays

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.