Author: Dr Yvonne Frankfurth

Founder + Fertility Coach for Egg Donation abroad at repro-travel.com. Affiliate, ReproSoc / Reproduction SRI, University of Cambridge. Yvonne offers individual support to women and couples on their journey abroad for IVF and egg donation (www.repro-travel.com). Always up-to-date with the fertility landscape in Europe, she provides relevant information and personalised coaching tools to her clients, enabling them to make confident decisions for their fertility journey abroad. Her insights are based on 7+ years coaching and her own academic research. She is an affiliate at ReproSoc / Reproduction SRI at Cambridge, where she also teaches on family well-being, gender and reproduction.

ROPA in Spain – a legal IVF option for same-sex female couples

Last Updated: September 9, 2025 The ROPA method (Reception of Oocytes from the Partner) makes it possible for lesbian couples to share motherhood from conception. One partner donates her eggs, fertilised with donor sperm, while the other carries the pregnancy. Spain has legally allowed this method since 2007 for married or civilly partnered same-sex female […]

IVF treatment abroad – Popular European destinations revealed

The number of fertility patients travelling to European countries for IVF treatment has been steadily increasing over the last decade. But why travel abroad when most countries offer fertility treatment to their own citizens? Reasons for these reproductive journeys are manifold. My own research and several existing studies (Frankfurth 2020; Whittaker, Inhorn, Shenfield 2019) from […]

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