A family at last thanks to pioneering fertility treatment

Innovative fertility treatment using egg yolks has helped a couple become parents after nine years of heartache.

Lucy and Liam Phasey, from North Wales, had four rounds of conventional IVF treatment through the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust and suffered the pain of miscarriage.

But now, thanks to a pioneering treatment at in Manchester, they are proud parents to 14-week-old Evie.

Mrs Phasey, 27, was told in 2007 that she would never conceive naturally because of a rare condition which meant her immune system was fighting the embryo cells.

They went through four attempts, between October 2009 and April 2012, on the NHS, but each failed, and despite scrimping and saving they were unable to afford any more.

The pair then stumbled across CARE, an infertility treatment centre in Manchester, where a doctor told them Mrs Phaseys immune system was too strong, killing off embryos because it thought they were a foreign body.

The 27-year-old was given intravenous intralipid therapy, a treatment administered through an IV drip and made from soya bean oil, egg yolk, glycerin and water.

The therapy stimulates the immune system to suppress so-called 'natural killer cells' and allow an embryo to implant in the womb.

And on February 7, the couple welcomed Evie Ray into the world at Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

Mrs Phasey, from Dolgellau, said: "I have five nieces and nephews and I honestly thought I would never go through that myself.

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A family at last thanks to pioneering fertility treatment