Sally Webster, Author at The Big Fertility Project

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02/11/2020

Getting pregnant was just the beginning of our fertility problems

I didn’t meet my life partner until 2009 was I was 38-years old. I was very aware my body clock

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Sally Webster 02/11/2020

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I find this quote really motivates me to change how I think about things. How we respond to what life throws at us is within our control. When you are in a source frame of mind it’s amazing to see how this has an impact on what happens in your life.

One top tip. Don’t go to a consultation with a blank piece of paper.

Girls are born with all the eggs they will ever have in their lifetime, about 2 million in total.

PWC predict that this year fewer babies will be born than since records began.

It’s very common for people to confuse eggs with embryos. The difference is really important.

This month, Rositsa kindly shares her fertility journey, 'The Best Is Somewhere Around The Corner'.⁠

Turning off the ovaries to better control ovarian stimulation during an IVF cycle.

Short answer: no

Administration of medicines to get the ovaries to grow more eggs than in a natural cycle. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) is given, usually by injection for about 10-12 days and monitoring is done by ultrasound and blood tests.

ICSI or Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection is the most common and successful treatment for male infertility.

Blastocyst. The structure of an embryo from about five days after fertilisation. Between 150 to 200 cells in size. The inner cell mass will go on to form a baby while outer layer will form the placenta. Embryologists can grade a blastocyst to predict its potential to implant.

The UK is facing the start of another lockdown and vaccination is the only exit strategy.

Here’s a quote for 2021. Often we get stressed causing us to react badly.

This little known gland at the base of the brain controls many hormonal systems of the body.

Reproductive medicine, like medicine in general, isn’t short of abbreviations and complicated terminology. You would think it was intentional to bamboozle the uninitiated and make doctors sound more clever than they really are.

Happy New Year.

Making healthy sperm is pretty complicated, and the genetics behind this is still not well understood.

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