June 2013

23 Jun IUI: why you shouldn’t have artificial insemination

  IUI, or artificial insemination, is fighting for its survival. Well, in the UK at least. If you thought you’d get IUI on the NHS,  you could be disappointed. Guidelines have recommended a reduction in state-funded IUI. Why?

14 Jun Is sex during IVF a good idea?

Read any fertility forum and you’ll find sex and IVF don’t get along too well. ‘I felt so unsexy’, writes one woman. ‘After my umpteenth trans-vaginal scan, sex was the last thing on my mind’. And: ‘We deliberately didn’t have sex before or after our IVF treatment – now we’ve forgotten what it’s like’.