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With more than 20 years' experience as a prize-winning breeder, Mr Thornley says typically he would expect to lose just 2-3% of pregnancies after embryo transfer.

For that story, I spoke to health psychologist Alice Domar, who referenced a study she led years ago that found that patients’ expectations of a successful embryo transfer were twice as high as their actual chances.

It is proposing bereavement leave should be extended to include those who experienced ectopic pregnancy - when a baby grows outside of the womb, molar pregnancy - when an egg is not fertilised correctly, IVF embryo transfer loss and terminations for medical reasons.

They hope to proceed with another frozen embryo transfer later this year.

At nine days post-ovulation—six days after her embryo transfer from her second egg retrieval—she took a test.