Egg Freezing Has Gone Mainstream. Are We Having the Right Conversations With Patients?
The Normalisation Has Outrun the Nuance A decade ago, elective oocyte cryopreservation was classified as experimental by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. In 2012, ASRM lifted that experimental label […]
The Fertility Solutions Cape Town Concierge — Everything We Handle So You Don’t Have To
Most people who travel internationally for IVF treatment discover, after they arrive, that the treatment itself was not the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. The accommodation […]
Why Fertility Treatment Is Still Financially Out of Reach for Many Women
Infertility is not selective. It does not discriminate by income, province, race, or social background. Yet in South Africa — one of the most unequal societies in the world — […]
Egg Donation: A Gift, a Transaction, or Something More Complex? The Ethical Questions the Industry Cannot Afford to Avoid
The Scale of What We Are Discussing Egg donation is one of the fastest-growing areas of assisted reproduction globally. In 2021, ESHRE data indicated that donor egg cycles accounted for […]
What Has Actually Changed in IVF Over the LastDecade — And What Still Needs To
The Laboratory Has Changed Significantly When vitrification became the standard for embryo cryopreservation roughly a decade ago, it represented one of the most clinically meaningful advances in IVF since the […]
Failed Cycle: The Grief Nobody Prepares You For
The clinic told you what to expect from the injections. They explained the retrieval. They walked you through the transfer. They probably even prepared you, gently, for the possibility that […]
PMOS vs PCOS: What Changed, What Stayed the Same, and Why It Matters
The Most Important Women’s Health Renaming in a Generation In May 2026, The Lancet published the results of one of the most significant medical consensus processes in women’s health history. […]
Does Medical Aid Cover IVF in South Africa?
For many South Africans facing infertility, IVF — in vitro fertilisation — represents both hope and financial anxiety. It is often the treatment that makes parenthood possible, yet the cost […]
What to Expect When You Travel to Cape Town for IVF — A Step-by-Step Guide
One of the biggest barriers to travelling abroad for fertility treatment is not the cost, and it is not the clinical uncertainty. It is not knowing what the journey will […]
The Real Cost of Fertility Treatment in South Africa
When people first start researching fertility treatment, the numbers can be shocking. What begins as a conversation about starting a family quickly becomes a conversation about significant financial outlay — […]