Science has ensured that we’re now able to help the vast majority of people who suffer from infertility. No longer is it something you have to cope with, now many people are able to become parents...
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...
One of the popular women’s weekly magazines recently ran a touching article focusing on a couple who couldn’t have children. It turned out the fertility issue lay with the husband, who had been diagnosed with a sperm disorder...
One of the most controversial aspects of the current HFEA (insert link to www.hfea.gov.uk here) (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) review is whether sperm donors and egg donors should be properly paid for their donations. Currently, payments for sperm and egg donations can only be made to cover travel costs and loss of earnings, with an overall limit of £250 for each course of donation...
Imagine going through the menopause in your twenties. You aren’t even in a serious relationship yet, but here you are unable to have children before you’ve even decided you want them. Or imagine you’re going through gruelling cancer treatment in your thirties. You wanted to wait a bit longer for children, but now there’s a chance you’ll never get pregnant naturally.
So what would make someone decide to use another man’s sperm to create their child? Surely we all want our children to be biologically ours, to ‘take after us’ and have our characteristics, our facial features, our mannerisms?...
There is currently a huge shortage of sperm donors in the UK. This might come as a surprise, after all, why would there be so few men willing to donate their sperm? Helping someone to have a child is one of the most generous things you can do...