Mental Health. Something that we do not discuss enough in general and even less so when talking about infertility.  I put a huge amount of importance on talking through the infertility journey with professionals, not only with the IVF Drs but also with the mental health professionals.  I believe that talking about the reasons as to why you are where you are is key to being able to move forward with your journey in a way that is positive. There are so many people that need to grieve for the family that they thought they were going to have, but haven't.  This can be for a variety ..read more

I had a call today with Rich Vaughn from the International Fertility Law Group who has helped nearly 40 intended parents fly to the US to be with their babies since the travel ban came into effect (including a number of parents who weren’t even his clients).  We are all hoping that the lockdown is going to end soon, but we still don’t know about the international travel bans.   COVID-19 has had an impact on everyone, everywhere and that includes international intended parents who have a child about to be born in the US.  Most ESTAs and Visas have been cancelled and an applicatio ..read more

The lower house of India's parliament has agreed to finally ban commercial surrogacy.  The bill still needs to pass through the upper house but that's by all accounts, a formality. Thankfully, many international intended parents had already stopped using India as their destination of choice for surrogacy, but, there are some people who are still using it in the hope that they will be grandfathered in and not face any issues after the ban is introduced. Therefore, I would expect to see the people who were still looking at India now moving through to countries such as the Ukraine and Georgia ..read more

This past weekend I was with my children eating apples, and as their baby teeth start to fall out we were cutting them up instead of biting into them to stop the wobbly ones falling out prematurely.  Whilst doing this, I said the phrase "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" which tickled them pink and which got me thinking about doctors and daily things....  As with most things in my life it is a spark of a thought that makes the 2 neurons in my head collide / ignite / start to work... and I started to think back through March and the amount of emails that I received about new babies being b ..read more