News releases

‘Woman to Woman’ Egg Donor Appeal

Midland Fertility Services is appealing to women to donate some of their eggs to another woman so that she can have a baby.  The ‘Woman to Woman’ campaign shows that many women may benefit from sharing or receiving donor eggs.

“The need for donor eggs vastly exceeds the availability,” said Dr Gillian Lockwood, medical director of Aldridge-based Midland Fertility Services (MFS).  …

‘Baby 4,500′ for MFS

Midland Fertility Services (MFS) has confirmed the birth of the clinic’s 4,500th baby. MFS ‘Baby 4,500′ Ellie Gummerson was born in August 2009, with her twin brother Richard - who is ‘Baby 4,501′.

[caption id="attachment_5860" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Libby and Mark Gummerson with their twins Ellie and Richard, who are 'MFS Babies 4,500 and 4,501', with Jill Anthony-Ackery (c) of MFS"]…

BBC3 Wants Single Women

BBC3 is looking for single women of all ages, to take part in a documentary about love and relationships and would like to include the experiences of those who may be planning [intlink id="299" type="page" title="go to IUI information"]IUI[/intlink] and single parenthood or who are considering [intlink id=”327″ type=”page” title=”go …

Frozen Eggs in the Bank

Banking on her Future Fertility

Kate is a 24 year old Oxford graduate currently gaining teaching experience before beginning her PGCE qualification in 2010.  Over the coming years, her life will be filled with the many choices available to any bright, young woman, including how her career will progress, who she’ll fall in love with, where and when she’ll buy her …

Double Christmas Joy

Blaithin and Tony Stevenson celebrated Christmas with the babies they’d dreamed of having since they married in 2004.

New MFS Patients’ Guide Now Available

The new MFS Patients’ Guide to Services is now available, including summaries of all main fertility investigation, treatment and preservation services, MFS news from the last 12 months and recent success rates

MFS Offers Ante-Natal Scanning

MFS now offers ante-natal scanning at Centre House via a satellite service from MUMS - Midlands Ultrasound Medical Services.

The Sun Seeks MFS Case Studies

The Sun is planning a feature in the woman’s pages of the newspaper about straight, single women who have conceived using donor sperm and is looking for a UK-based woman to interview for the piece.

Late Motherhood: Time for a Vital Wake-up Call

Comment from Dr Gillian Lockwood of MFS in The Observer, Sunday 9 August 2009

Travelling Abroad for Fertility Treatment?

A team at De Montfort University in Leicester is researching on the reasons people go abroad for fertility treatment.

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