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Choosing the Path of Egg Donation, The Why Wait Agenda Meets Becky Kearns (opens the original)
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Becky Kearns was 27 when she and her partner started trying for a baby. After being turned away twice by her GP and told to keep trying, she was eventually diagnosed with premature ovarian failure and began a taxing path through IVF, eventually turning to egg donation, and she and her partner now have three daughters. That journey turned her into a patient advocate: she founded DefiningMum, the online platform Paths to Parenthood, which she runs with Hayley King – who is herself donor-conceiv...
Trying to Conceive, When Hope and Fear Coexist: The Why Wait Agenda Meets Angela Pericleous-Smith (opens the original)
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Best Fertility Counsellor 2025 award winner and BICA Chair Angela Pericleous-Smith joins The Why Wait Agenda to talk about the stigma still surrounding counselling, why she would never suggest a patient stop treatment, and the hope and fear that coexist in every fertility clinic. Behind every fertility clinic's doctors, nurses and embryologists there is often another professional working further down the corridor, out of sight. Angela Pericleous-Smith has spent two decades trying to change t...
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