“The CF team are outstanding, and I would say this whether we did or did not have success with creating a baby.
The team, led by Mr Kamal Ojha, held our hand through the whole traumatic process. We had four rounds of egg collection (due to my rock bottom AMH numbers) – a 3 package cycle and a single cycle. The team were completely transparent about our very low odds (less than 10% chance) the whole time, and we were never given false hope. The team were positive, but never overly so, something I appreciated.
They became part of our family, everyone from the reception team, to the nursing team taking my bloods almost daily, to the theatre team, to the Drs and Sonographers, to the embryologists. Everyone was on this journey with us, willing us on. They listened when I did wider research, they were open minded, they held my hand when I cried and the hugged us when we had any small win.
We only managed to get one egg to blastocyst, and the team were always cautiously optimistic, the embryo was a low grade but we had to hope on that one egg. Because of this we already looked into egg donor through the clinics links to Spain so we always had a ‘next stage plan’ which meant we could look forward. By some absolute miracle, our only embryo stuck and after a rocky start after the TWW, we had a growing, thriving baby. He turned 1 last week.
We owe everything to this team. There are not enough thank yous. They looked after the science and it is truly magic. But even if we had not been successful, we knew that every avenue was considered, no stone left unturned, and we had complete trust in the team that they would try their very best to give us personal, sensitive treatment, always with clear explanations and with us on side.
I would highly recommend Concept Fertility for anyone going through early stage testing to full IVF or donor treatment.
Thank you Kamal, Onur, Marianna, Rachael, Emily, Brenda, Karl, Fran from the Lab, Spanish O from the Lab, Joanna, Zdenek, Poppy, Esther XXX”.