IVF Treatment bid on track for widow Rachel

A Black Country widow who is attempting to conceive using her late husband's frozen sperm has undergone her first scan since beginning IVF treatment. Rachel Wyke's fertility treatment is right on track, according to specialists at Birmingham Women's Hospital.

The 23-year-old had the scan to check progress and was told everything was as it should be, despite her case being complicated by polycystic ovaries.

Her husband Gareth died in Compton Hospice in December 2003 after a four year battle with testicular cancer. He had an amount of sperm frozen after being diagnosed.

Mrs Wyke, of Paddock in Walsall, was also prescribed the second type of IVF drug she has to inject daily. She must inject two types of drug at 6am every day until the end of this week when she is due a second scan to monitor the procedure. Mrs Wyke suffered no side effects from the first medicine but the second drug has hit her system harder.

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