There was an interesting case in the media recently about a man who found out his sperm had been damaged by the heat from his laptop after he failed to get his wife pregnant.
The man used his compute...
We’ve been inundated with enquiries from women considering donating their eggs since the new compensation came into effect from 1 April. If you’re one of the many women considering it, you may be wondering whether becoming an egg donor can affect your own fertility. This may especially be the case...
Do you think that sperm donors make a lot of money? Or that being a sperm donor can affect the quality of your sperm? Here we look at common myths surrounding sperm donation. Being a sperm donor affects your fertility...
One of the most common reasons many women need to use a donor egg to get pregnant is because their own eggs are not good enough quality to be used due to the woman’s age. It’s a fact that live birth rates for older women in their mid-40s, who wish to use their own eggs to conceive, is generally extremely low. And so for many women who want to have children later in life, an egg donor is their only hope...
One of the common reasons why people need to use a sperm donor is because their own sperm isn’t of good enough quality to be used. But a new study has shown that Vitamin D – produced by our bodies when we’re exposed to sunshine - may help to boost sperm quality. In a study of 340 men, sperm was shown to have improved motility, speed and better penetration in those with enough levels of vitamin D...
We’re always told that exercise is good for you, but could your choice of sport be damaging your fertility? New research appears to suggest that men who cycle for more than five hours a week have fewer and less active sperm than men who don’t exercise at all. Over 2,200 men who were all attending fertility clinics were surveyed in the Boston University study, with each giving a sperm sample for testing...
One of the questions we are commonly asked is what the options are if you want to donate your sperm or eggs to someone you know. Firstly, it’s not unusual for people to want to do this. Perhaps you have friends who can’t have children without using a donor egg. Or maybe you have single female friends, who want you to donate sperm to help them get pregnant...
A young couple from Staffordshire turned to their local newspaper recently to try and find an egg donor. The couple have spent all of this year in second place on their local hospital waiting list for a donor egg, having been told they could be waiting an ‘indefinable’ amount of time for an egg donor to come forward due to the acute shortage of egg donors...
In the UK there’s a huge shortage of egg donors, and current regulations mean it’s illegal to advertise for one. So if you need a donor egg, how do you find a donor?...
According to a recent press report, British couples who went for fertility treatment in Spain could have had their embryos donated to other couples without their consent...