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Patients in Staffordshire and Cheshire can now travel to Stoke for their fertility treatment with Nurture Fertility.
We may have been in lockdown but a fertility unit in Stoke on Trent certainly hasn t seen its workload slow down – in fact calls are up by 30% in the last six months.
Nurture Fertility at Albion House off Forge Lane, has also seen a 26% increase in the number of patient referrals received compared to the same time last year.
And latest figures from Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority have confirmed that Nurture Fertility has the highest pregnancy rates in Stoke on Trent, with pregnancy rates of 44% for women under the age of 35.
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Caroline Drewett, 43, and Kirsten Willis, 48, from Reading, welcomed their son, Monty, in May 2020. Kirsten explained they had always wanted a family and were referred to Oxford Fertility. Kirsten said: “We underwent five IVF cycles, which weren’t successful. The hurt and pain you experience when you’re not successful is unbearable. The couple had one final round of IVF and when the test came back positive the couple couldn t believe it . Monty was born in May this year. Kirsten said: He is absolutely adorable. Every day you wake up and see him, it feels like Christmas day again. He has massively changed our lives for the better and we wouldn’t change it for the world.