By Richard Woolven, Trustee There can be no denying that undergoing fertility treatment is a stressful experience. Those of us who have faced the tests and injections, the prodding, the pitying faces, the mocking, the indifference and the thousand other indignities are all too aware of just how much of a struggle it can be. …
Monthly Archive: January 2010
Jan
18
My dream
By Laura Hughes, Trustee My dream: we have just tucked into bed two very cold, tired but extremely happy children. Our Christmas card village cut off by snow, no school and no work. So we spent the day in the snow, building snowmen, throwing snowballs, sledging down the now car-free hill and popping inside every …
Jan
11
Why I became a trustee
By Dr Ruth Curson, Trustee I asked to work with the NGDT because I have seen the happiness having a family with a donor’s help can bring to couples who can’t for some reason or other do it by themselves. For thirty years I worked in a Fertility Clinic with special responsibility for the sperm …
Jan
03
New year’s resolution
By Kriss Fearon, Trustee I was in a queue in a shop the other day and overheard the woman behind me talking into her mobile phone. ‘My mum says people who don’t have children are selfish, they don’t think of anyone except themselves’, she said, with no apparent awareness that what she was repeating might …