Fertility process raises pregnancy hope

A fertility clinic in Cork is the first in Ireland to introduce a service which promises a 90%-plus survival rate for frozen embryos, as they will be frozen 600 times faster than before.

The new process, known as vitrification, will improve outcomes for couples who are undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Generally, as part of the IVF process, several embryos are generated, with one transferred to the womb and the remaining embryos are often frozen.