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Osteopathy and fertility: a conversation with Nacho Ordaz

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As we have been announcing in the last months, Tambre is committed to everything that contributes to benefit our assisted reproduction treatments. That is why, after speaking on the blog about nutrition, reflexology and acupuncture, today we immerse ourselves in the universe of osteopathy and fertility. For this occasion we have interviewed Nacho Ordaz, a professional who has just joined the Tambre team to carry out this therapeutic methodology in our clinic.

What can we learn about the concept of osteopathy?

According to him, the mission of osteopathy is to eliminate the physical blockages behind most of the dysfunctions we suffer after a thorough diagnostic examination. The osteopath explains that the obvious relationship between this discipline and fertility is searching for tissue relaxation, and therefore favoring the embryo transfer.

The osteopathy is in full expansion in the field of fertility. “More and more studies seem to confirm its effectiveness treating infertility factors and, I hope, we can start applying them in the clinic soon,” Nacho explains.

When we asked him what he likes best about his profession, he told us the following: “I have been working in the field of manual therapies for 20 years and I am passionate about the fact that we are able to improve different dysfunction with very little interference. I love being able to expand the scope of action in these while continuing to learn new techniques.”

Welcome to Tambre, Nacho!

He believes that it is not always necessary to compartmentalize the human body in order to treat it. It makes no sense to focus on one part and ignore the rest. “In fields such as fertility, where stress and tension play a big role, I believe that manual therapies and osteopathy in particular can help the future mother to find physical balance and relaxation that contribute to the fact that the process comes to a good end, ”explains the expert.

Nacho Ordaz is very excited to start this adventure with us. He cannot wait to challenge his knowledge in osteopathy and expand his experience to the fullest in assisted reproduction. He is confident that Tambre will evolve in terms of complementary therapies and will become a reference center in this field.

Kirstie and Chris, it’s wonderful to have you in Madrid!

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A few days ago, we announced that some very special patients were going to be joining us for their fertility journey. Kirstie and Chris are a couple from Northern Ireland who, despite their youth, have already proven to be natural born fighters.

They met 7 years ago, and from the beginning they knew one thing for sure: they wanted to be parents as soon as possible. From the start they suspected they were going to have complications, they knew they would have to face challenges, so they decided to confront their future strongly.

Some time ago they met Andrew Coutts, our friend from Fertility Road and International Fertility Company, who has been a great support to them. Andrew is an inspiring figure who does everything in his power to help.

Kirstie and Chris’ timeline with assisted reproduction, unfortunately, does not begin here. The couple has already had to cope with two failed cycles of egg donation, as well as a successful cycle that ended in a miscarriage.

Tambre considers it remarkable and brave that people like Kirstie and Chris decide to continue trying to reach their goal with our support. We know it isn’t easy to resurface after facing so many adversities.

How did they prepare to begin this new stage?

Kirstie says that in these situations, overthinking is inevitable, as many emotions and changes are involved. “You don’t know what to expect”, says Chris, although thanks to Andrew they had an idea of how they were going to be treated at Tambre.

Before heading to Madrid, they felt nervous; arriving at a new clinic is exciting. Meeting a new doctor and a new team means repeating your story. It means reopening wounds and taking in new information. However, they were also excited because it marked the beginning of a new chapter.

When they arrived at Tambre, the first thing that caught their attention were the modern facilities and the state-of-the-art look and feel. They also adored the waiting area, which is divided into individual spaces. “It’s far nicer than being in a big room, it’s more personal,” says Chris.

Kirstie&Chris Tambre

Additionally, what delighted them was the closeness of Tambre’s team. Kirstie believes the entire staff is very friendly and appreciates that Saúl Mizrahi, their coordinator, is so approachable and warm. “It’s a nice atmosphere, you feel welcome, you don’t feel like awkward,” she says.

They have also been lucky being with Dr. Laura Garcia who is taking their case and shared with them an extensive first visit. Our patients have left the centre feeling very pleased because they have managed to resolve all their doubts and have already familiarised with the treatment plan they are going to follow. “We’re putting everything that we have in your hands”, recognises Kirstie.

What did they take away from this first visit?

Now that they have met us, they see things from a different perspective. Their biggest concern, which was the language barrier, faded as soon as they met our English-speaking team.

As for having to leave their country for treatment they say: “You know what? It’s actually easier than you think”. The couple explains that Madrid is accessible, and their hotel is lovely. They believe that communication with the clinic and in this case with Andrew, is crucial before traveling.

They also value the fact that there are tests that can be carried out here, which saves a lot of time. Kirstie says that she would highly recommend Tambre. “We feel comfortable in the clinic. We feel like an individual, it doesn’t feel like you are just doing your job. You make it feel like you’re there for us, to help us achieve our dream”

The Fertility Journey continues for Kirstie & Chris

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A new adventure is about to unfold on Tambre’s blog. Some time ago our collaborator and friend, Andrew Coutts, from International Fertility Company and Fertility Road reached out to tell us a very special story: the case of Kirstie and Chris.

Despite their youth, this couple from Northern Ireland have faced a complicated fertility path. Following an unsuccessful cycle at home in 2016 Kirstie and Chris were chosen to participate in Fertility Road’s Journey project in 2018. Unfortunately their first egg donation treatment was unsuccessful and the couple returned to the clinic in April of this year. The subsequent treatment was successful but heartbreakingly Kirstie suffered a loss shortly after returning home.

Fertility Road Editor, Andrew kept in constant contact with the couple and set about finding them a fertility clinic who would consider addressing their very specific requirements. Given Andrew’s extensive experience in the fertility sector, he recognised that Tambre’s background in dealing with complex cases was a good fit and approached us.

Our medical team reviewed the couple’s health notes and although recognising the challenges it faced instantly agreed to helping the couple. Tambre’s Chief Executive Officer, Inge Kormelink said, “we were delighted to help Kirstie and Chris following an introduction by Fertility Road. We will do our utmost to help this couple achieve their dream of family life”

The story now begins and we will be following the couple as they visit Tambre for the first time and beginning what we hope, will be a very successful fertility journey. Follow their story in our blog, Fertility Road and the International Fertility Company.

For the moment we share a letter written by Kirstie and Chris which reflects their sadness at previous treatments but looks forward with hope and optimism about the next part of their journey.

 “After 2 failed egg donation cycles and 1 positive cycle (silent miscarriage) we continued our fertility journey. I took some time off work to grieve and allow myself to come to terms with what had happened. I just could not believe that the pregnancy ended, it was our worst nightmare come true.

Andrew, the editor at the magazine Fertility Road, kept in close contact with us during the time after the miscarriage, he was immensely supportive, and he deserves great credit for his kind nature and personal approach. Any questions we had Andrew was there every time offering his advice.

During such a traumatic time, you naturally begin to lose hope and wonder how or if things would ever work out. You start to question yourself and think you did something wrong. Of course, nobody did anything wrong, it was just one of these things. Going through the miscarriage and the weeks that followed brought us even closer as a couple and strengthened even further the love we have for each other.

Even after this natural period of grief, we knew deep down in our hearts that we can never give up on our dream of having a child. Chris & I are both firm believers in that “all your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them”.

We began to start raising the funds needed to go into another IVF cycle (using donor eggs). Here we are today, just a week or two after we received some excellent news. The best news we could have ever hoped for. Andrew was in touch with Tambre, one of the Spanish clinics. When they heard about our case, they didn’t think twice and decided to help us. We are looking forward to going through another fertility journey with Andrew in our corner, we couldn’t do it without him.

We both cried with joy and disbelief. We felt really blessed to have another chance in another place. We were on top of the world.

We just feel so lucky to be given this opportunity. After doing some research around Tambre, they really do sound like a top-class clinic and we just can’t wait to go there and meet everyone. Spain is such an easy country for us to get to which will hopefully help make things easier.

IVF is such a tough journey to go on. There are difficult moments throughout each and every journey. We feel ready to start our new chapter in Spain. I would advise anyone not to give up and to keep going. There have been many times throughout the past few years that we have struggled to remain hopeful but there is always hope and that’s what keeps us going.

This year has been a rollercoaster already and as I write this, it’s only September! There is now light at the end of the tunnel in the form of Clinica Tambre and hopefully with the best efforts of all of us, we can experience our dream come true with the help of them! We can’t wait to get started.

Now as we plan to head to Spain we look forward to meeting all the team at the clinic and of course Andrew, whilst we go through this journey together.”

Kirstie & Chris

Yet another year Tambre attends the Fertility Show in London

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With great joy we look back on the Fertility Show weekend in Olympia, London, the 1st until the 3rd of November. From Madrid, we brought over our international team consisting of our CEO; Inge Kormelink, our medical specialists; Dr. Laura García and Dr. Esther Marbán, and last but not least, our patient care coordinators; Darya Kolzyk and Babs van Enoo.

Foto equipo Tambre Fertility Show

Laura García Fertility Show

The composition of our team allowed us to help the people we met during the weekend in the best way possible. While our medical experts informed the guests about the

different treatments and possibilities we offer, our patient care coordinators made sure to clarify everything related to the process of having fertility treatment abroad. Dr. Laura García presented about egg donation in Spain, where everyone listening could freely ask questions at any time.

We also had the pleasure to sit down with IVF Babble, a renowned organisation for everything surrounding the topic of fertility. There, in the Babble Lounge, Dr. Esther Marbán told about IVF treatment in Spain.

In addition to seeing many new faces and creating new contacts, we also met some of our partners. Joyce Harper, Head of Reproductive Science at UCL, attended the fertility show to spread the word on everything surrounding women’s health. To our great joy she managed to spend some time at our stand as well.

Con Joyce y Sue Fertility Show

Similarly, we were also accompanied by out UK-based partner and friend, Sue Bedford. She made sure all guests left our stand well-informed on the topic of nutrition and fertility. We value our UK patients, that’s why we count on fertility experts around the country to make your fertility journey more pleasant. Joyce and Sue are important examples for this.

The Fertility Show also gave us the opportunity to announce our newly added complementary therapies. Recently, we started offering our patients acupuncture sessions, fertility massages and reflexology as they have proven to be beneficial to the fertility journey. We presented the complementary therapies with a fine brochure which guests could pick up at our stand.

In short, we ́ve received an incredible amount of positive feedback during the weekend, as well as after. For us it’s always a joy to meet new people and potential patients. We ́re happy to welcome many new patients to our clinic in Madrid within the next few months.

We’re looking forward to the Fertility Show 2020. We will continue to work with effort so that next year we have much more news to tell and many more benefits to offer our patients.

Egg Donation Friends is one of the most reliable sources for comparing clinics

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The relationship between  and Clínica Tambre is becoming more and more consolidated. We both share the same ideals regarding the patient’s right to be well informed of all the options available when undergoing assisted reproduction treatment. For this reason, we have decided to interview Jacob Dejewski, CEO of Egg Donation Friends, in order to get to know his vision of the fertility sector, to discover how EDF was founded and to hear his thoughts on the mission that Clínica Tambre carries out.

How did the opportunity to create Egg Donation Friends arise?

EggDonationFriends.com was created by a group of friends who struggled with infertility and had their first IVF experience abroad. At that time information about IVF online was rather skimp and that is how the idea of an online platform was born. EggDonationFriends soon developed into a one-stop shop for egg donation patients seeking a clinic outside their home country. Our services for patients are free. Today we have a solid, passionate and experienced team and we also work with IVF experts, authors and fertility professionals from around the world. By sharing our knowledge on IVF egg donation with patients, we believe we can help them make better choices.

Since the start of the project until today, what do you think have been the greatest innovations or changes within the assisted reproduction sector?

Since 1978 when the first IVF baby was born there have been many changes in the field of ART. In the 1985 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) was created and it almost instantly contributed to the development of the industry, through exchange of experience, training, and cooperation between specialists and clinics.

The revolution included not only assisted reproduction technologies, but also social, cultural, legal, and ethical responses to IVF and infertility. We have seen a rise of new trends and treatments like mitochondrial transfer (so called “three parent baby”), the use of face recognition software applied to the process or selecting a donor, fertility preservation before cancer treatment or the advance of PGT (preimplantation genetic testing). However, I think the biggest change has happened in the sociocultural sector. IVF patients are more aware of their options, they make careful and well-thought-out decisions when it comes to selecting an IVF clinic. There is also more healthy “buzz” in social media about infertility and IVF as they slowly cease to be taboo topics. Assisted reproduction is starting to be seen as a treatment like any other. I think we still need to talk about it openly to spread awareness and understanding.

When we talk about the greatest changes in the medical tourism sector, we mustn’t forget about other accelerators: the development of the Internet, the advent of low-cost airlines and the introduction of EU regulations creating the common European aviation market in the early 1990s. The Internet and the invention of WWW in 1993 enabled people to find information about treatments abroad in their native language. European IVF clinics were finally able to communicate their offer online and started to cater for foreign patients. What’s more, flying abroad has become cheaper and widely accessible thanks to budget airlines and new airports throughout Europe. I think all this has had a huge impact on the development of the ART sector.

What are the requisites you keep in mind when it comes to choosing a clinic for your platform?

The main requirement for a clinic to be listed on our platform is to supply complete and true information about their clinic. Among crucial data the clinics need to provide their safety and clinical standards description, accreditations, pricing and egg donation program details. Transparency is our main priority. The clinic profiles which are published on our site contain information that is confirmed as true by the clinics’ directors. As you probably noticed, all clinic profiles have the same structure – in the end of the day what matters for patients is the quality of the treatment, patient care and the cost.

We also issue Trusted Clinic certificates. They are awarded only to clinics that are the most trustworthy and credible. When patients choose a clinic with a Trusted Certificate, they can be sure they are in safe hands.

We like to think of EggDonationFriends.com as a part of movement to bring a change in how fertility clinics think and how they approach their patients. That is why we support full transparency when it comes to clinics’ offer and the ways in which they present it.

Why do we focus on the above? Clinics do not always publish complete data on their websites and only some fertility associations provide data about clinics registered with them. But those who share the data are still in the minority. Egg Donation Friends aims to list only those clinics which are fully transparent and willing to share their data with patients. We are currently taken a giant step in this direction. We will offer patients new clinic profiles that will contain even more practical and valuable information. In other words, Egg Donation Friends is becoming the only source for reliable IVF clinics which allows to compare the clinics from different countries.

What was your objective in creating the idea of the IVF CLINIC AWARDS?

The idea to create IVF CLINIC AWARDS came from the previous CEO, Boris Becker. The objective behind the awards was twofold. First of all, we need to remember that our platform (EggDonationFriends.com) has been created for patients. In the online world of data overload and unverified information, we wanted the IVF CLINIC AWARDS to be a guiding beacon for patients seeking fertility treatment and transparent information. We want patients to know that the award-winning clinics have outstanding results, provide quality treatment and care and that they are worth considering for their IVF treatment abroad. Secondly, our other objective is to promote best medical practices and dynamize healthy competition in assisted reproduction field. We have received valuable feedback from various clinics saying that the awards motivate them and increase the morale of their staff. We also need to remember about all the people who work for the clinic: not only doctors and embryologists, but also nurses, patient coordinators and midwives. The IVF CLINIC AWARDS show that their hard work is being recognized and that the staff can be proud of working at an internationally awarded clinic.

It has been an honour for us to have been granted the “Innovations” and “Egg Donation Program” awards. Why is the Egg Donation Program considered the most important award?

Egg donation is the main focus of our activities. We do realise it is not a standard IVF treatment. For many couples, moving from own eggs to donor eggs is a huge step and a decision that requires a lot of thought. It also requires the clinic to skilfully manage the egg bank, coordinate donors and recipients so that every cycle goes smoothly. The awards in other categories, for example Innovations or Personalized Treatment, are equally important and carry their own value.

What aspects of Clínica Tambre did you consider when it came to awarding us with the previously mentioned awards and including us in your list of clinics?

We have carefully evaluated your Egg Donation program offer, egg bank capacities, egg donation success rates and multiple pregnancy rates. We also took into consideration that Clinica Tambre works with Healthcare Ethics Committee that ensures ethical practice and maintaining high success rates using ethical and non-risky treatments. As for the Innovations award, we looked at the innovative approach and technology Clinica Tambre uses. We evaluated your incubation equipment, security technology used for handling biological samples and specialized facial biometric recognition software, Fenomatch which has been receiving very positive feedback from patients who are interested in advanced donor matching.

Joyce Harper becomes the new Executive Scientific Board Advisor of Clínica Tambre

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Since it was first opened in 1978 Clínica Tambre has invested heavily in dynamic research and emerging technologies. Its core philosophy encourages matching the best science can offer with the best team capable of delivering the most effective service to its patients. The latest appointment at the clinic, that of Joyce Harper, eminent Professor and Head of Reproductive Science at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London is proof of this ongoing commitment.

Professor Harper joins the team as the Executive Scientific Board Advisor and brings with her over 30 years experience in the fields of fertility, genetics, reproductive health and women’s health. In addition, she is Principal Investigator of the Reproductive Science Group; Director of the Embryology and PGD Academy, Founder of Global Women Connected and Co-Founder of the Fertility Education Initiative.

The appointment marks the latest in a number of advances at the clinic designed to consolidate its position as one of the emerging leaders of European fertility treatment provision. Harper’s vast experience in the field will ensure and maintain the ethical and scientific rigour which has come to characterise the clinic over the past 40 years.

Since her appointment less than a year ago the clinic’s CEO Inge Kormelink has led a revolution of evolvement which has included the strengthening of the clinic’s involvement in its domestic market and the creation of a bespoke, multi-lingual team who have rapidly become an integral part of the international fertility market, drawing patients from across Europe and beyond.

Carolina Andrés, Dra. Susana Cortés, Inge Kormelink, Joyce Harper and Andrea Rodrigo
Carolina Andrés, Dra. Susana Cortés, Inge Kormelink, Joyce Harper and Andrea Rodrigo

For Kormelink, Professor Harper’s appointment demonstrates the clinic’s commitment to the highest quality of care and support for its patients. “Tambre is recognised internationally as a centre of excellence for investigations into the causes of infertility; alongside our use of the latest scientific technologies which promote safety rules and guidelines in the laboratory (RI-Witness® management system) and those which record and monitor embryo development (Geri© Time-lapse Incubator) Joyce will ensure we remain committed to ethical practice which is supported by proved, scientific research.

We remain the only fertility clinic in Madrid which has a formal, Healthcare Ethics Committee and this has enabled us to consistently achieve high success rates whilst adhering to the most strict ethical practice; something I think which makes us unique in our field. We welcome Professor Harper to our team and look forward to her helping to shape our practice as we grow and develop.

For those interested in Joyce Harper’s explanations, we want to remind you that she has already collaborated with Tambre through her input on PGT and donor selection.