After
trying for a baby for a year, Janine and James from Southampton decided to
visit their doctor to discuss their fertility. They both had fertility tests and whilst Janine’s results showed
normal fertility, James’ were abnormal.
Janine and James were referred to Complete Fertility Centre
Southampton. Here patients have access to world renowned fertility experts and
the latest research-based developments in fertility medicine.
Six weeks later the couple met with Mr Nick Brooks,
Consultant Gynaecologist, who has over ten years fertility experience. Mr Brook
carried out further tests on James and diagnosed him infertile due to
Kleinfelter’s syndrome, a condition that affects a male’s fertility due to an
extra X chromosome.
Mr Brook suggested using donor sperm and Intra Uterine
Insemination (IUI) to help Janine and James conceive. IUI is a treatment whereby
specially prepared sperm are placed directly into the womb at the time when
eggs are being released. Production of eggs is helped by the use of fertility
drugs. When a woman is about to ovulate, the most motile sperm will be used for
insemination. For James and Janine the sperm would be from a donor.
Mr Brook explained the process fully; it’s success rates and
timescales to Janine and James. As they longed to have a baby they decided to
give donor sperm IUI a try.
After researching other fertility centres Janine and James
decided to progress their fertility treatment at Complete Fertility Centre.
They felt reassured by the friendly and helpful staff they had already met and
it was also favourable in price.
Janine and James’s donor was chosen from Complete Fertility
Centre’s sperm bank, the largest sperm bank on the South Coast. They chose a
donor that best matched James’s characteristics and interests. They felt
extremely grateful to the donor for helping to give them a chance to achieve
their dreams.
Mr Brook said “The donation of sperm and eggs is a generous
and positive act that enables women and couples to achieve their only hope of
having a child. The HFEA has just made changes relating to donor payment and
Complete Fertility Centre Southampton will now reimburse sperm donors £35 for
each visit they make to the Centre and egg donors will receive a total of
£750.”
On 17 January 2012 Janine gave birth to a beautiful baby
girl called Katie-Lily at the Princess Anne Hospital. A unique feature of
Complete Fertility Centre is that it is located within the Princess Anne
Hospital so that patients can enjoy continuity of care and a sense of
familiarity.
For more information on the treatments available at Complete Fertility or to become a sperm or egg donor please
contact Complete Fertility on 023 8079 6980 or email fertility@uhs.nhs.uk.
Infertility treatment news : 19 June 2012
