Cathy Adams: Deciding when enough is enough

Cathy Adams: Deciding when enough is enough

From Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF by Big Fat Negative

June 15, 2026 · 1h 7m · Season 8 · Episode 10

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Cathy Adams discusses her struggles with secondary infertility and the decision to continue IVF treatment.

Cathy Adams is the travel news features editor for The Times and Sunday Times -- and also a person who has spent years trying to conceive her second child. Now, she's at a crossroads: give up IVF and reconcile herself to having one child, or keep adding to the £40,000 it's already cost her? Secondary infertility has never felt so difficult. Meanwhile, Emma provides an update on her endometriosis story, as Ed Coats, medical director at The Evewell West London, addresses the treatment options for endometriosis patients who are trying to conceive. Is IVF the only answer? You can find out more about the baby loss and miscarriage charity Gabby mentions, Chasing Rainbows, at https://www.chasingrainbowscharity.com/ . You can find Hannah Vaughan-Jones' Substack at https://hannahvaughanjones.substack.com/ . -- Hi, we're Emma and Gabby from BFN, the UK's biggest podcast about infertility and IVF. We're on our eighth series now, but at the beginning we shared our own IVF journeys. If you'd like to hear about them, go back to the first series of the podcast. You'll get to know us better that way, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hosts: Emma, Gabby

Guest: Cathy Adams

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Organizations: The Times, Sunday Times, The Evewell West London, Chasing Rainbows, Hannah Vaughan-Jones' Substack

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