We started trying to have a baby just after we got married in the beginning of 2018. We fell pregnant relatively quickly but suffered a missed miscarriage just before the 12 week scan. We were told countless times that it was just one of those things and to just try again.

We fell pregnant again a few months later. This time there was so much anxiety around the pregnancy as we now knew what could happen but as we had been told it was very unlikely to happen again we tried to stay positive. We suffered another missed miscarriage early in the pregnancy. After our second loss we decided to speak to an obstetrician privately. She assured us that given our age and health there should be no reason why the next pregnancy wouldn’t work out. As a precaution she prescribed us progesterone pessaries and low dose aspirin from the next positive pregnancy test and we left feeling like maybe this could be the answer.

Again we fell pregnant and the drugs seemed to be working. We passed the heartbeat milestone, the 12 week milestone, the 20 week milestone and we thought that it was finally going to be our turn to bring home a baby. At 22 weeks I had concerns about the baby’s movement and so we booked a scan as a precaution. We found out that the baby’s heart had stopped beating and our whole world fell apart. I delivered our daughter B a few days later and what followed was many months of grieving and hopelessness (and a global pandemic). The results from the postmortem were inconclusive and the NHS tests that I was finally eligible for said that nothing was wrong. Honestly we didn’t know what else to do but try again so we did and suffered another early missed miscarriage.

After our fourth loss I had almost given up hope of ever bringing home a healthy baby. I was trying to prepare myself for a life without living children but we decided to try one last thing and that was Mr Shehata’s clinic. I will be forever grateful that we made that decision.

Mr Shehata really listened to our story and we felt instantly reassured that this was a doctor who could really help us. He quickly identified that I had too many NK cells with too much activity and Rob had DNA fragmentation all of which could explain our losses. It was such a relief to finally have answers and stop questioning why this was happening to us.

It took a while for us to get pregnant again and we ended up using the clinic’s superovulation programme. When we finally fell pregnant again the anxiety that shadowed the pregnancy was crippling. The staff at CRP really held our hands through the whole process. I think I’ve probably cried in front of all of them! We stayed under the clinic for the entirety of the pregnancy and our regular scans with Professor Akolekar played a huge part in reassuring us of our baby’s wellbeing. His scans were extremely thorough and he really took the time to talk us through everything that he was seeing. After 8 long months our miracle was born, a little prematurely but strong and healthy. It felt like there was suddenly light in our life again.

Twenty months later and we are now at home with not just one but two beautiful little boys. Our second pregnancy through the clinic was much easier to handle mentally but the anxiety was still there. But this time we knew that the drugs were the answer and that was all we needed to stay positive.

Words can’t really describe what the clinic has given us. Their work has completely changed our lives and given us the thing that we wanted most in the world. We will be forever grateful for the work of Mr Shehata and his amazing team and we sing their praises at every opportunity. We heard about the clinic by pure chance through a friend of a friend of a friend who had used them. So we try to tell as many people as we can about the work that they do in the hope of helping other couples going through the unimaginable grief of repeated pregnancy loss.

To the team at CRP, a million thank yous,

Rob and Ellie

After suffering five recurrent miscarriages and to be told that they were just bad luck, my husband and I decided to seek help for the final time.

We researched online, miscarriage specialist, which brought us to Professor Shehata and the CRP Clinic. We thought if there is something causing our miscarriages, Professor Shehata will find it, and didn’t he just.

I was diagnosed with elevated natural killer cells and put on a treatment plan which resulted in a successful pregnancy.

Our experience at the CRP Clinic was phenomenal from beginning to end and we are forever grateful for making our dream come true.

Best wishes,

Hannah & Jonny x

We had been trying to have a baby since 2020 and when I was going through my second consecutive miscarriage at 11 weeks I came across Professor Shehata’s name in a podcast. Having had both miscarriages at exactly the same point and having an underlying autoimmune condition, I knew I needed to seek further advice to potentially prevent an unavoidable 3rd miscarriage. 

We booked an initial consultation with Professor Shehata where I finally felt listened to and some of the pains and symptoms I’d been having in the previous pregnancies were validated and taken on board. After having the initial blood tests it appeared that my NK cells were incredibly high and my immune system was attacking the pregnancies. It was a very emotional moment knowing that potentially, the previous miscarriages could have been prevented. 

I was put on a treatment plan which I was initially quite nervous about but Professor Shehata and his team were incredibly reassuring and clearly experts in this field. 

From starting the treatment plan in April 2022, I fell pregnant and our beautiful baby boy Louis was born June 06 2023. It has been a journey to get to this point with a lot of time, road trips and money invested but I truly believe we never would have got here without the help of the CRP. I’ll always be forever grateful that we were able to go down this route and would highly recommend Professor Shehata and his team.

We first visited the CRP clinic in October 2022 after experiencing three miscarriages within the previous year. After feeling underwhelmed by the support available on the NHS and hearing many stories about people being told they had ‘unexplained infertility’ after long waits for NHS testing, we decided we wanted to invest in some private care. We first heard of Dr Shehata on a podcast and he seemed to talk so much sense! It was the first time someone had talked so clearly about issues that sounded so similar to ours and seemed to be able to offer a solution. Despite living in the north of England, we quickly contacted the clinic and were given an initial appointment a couple of weeks later.

Three weeks after our first appointment, we returned to the clinic where we were told I had overactive NK cells and too many of them. Dr Shehata presented us with a clear treatment plan and a schedule of appointments to follow as and when we fell pregnant. I had my first intralipid drip that day with a view to trying to conceive when I ovulated that cycle. Miraculously, I ovulated a couple of days later and two weeks after that, we were looking at a positive pregnancy test!

Throughout our entire pregnancy, we felt listened to and taken care of and we knew we were in the best possible hands. Although the clinic was a long journey for us, every appointment felt completely worthwhile and was so important in helping us to feel reassured and reduced our anxiety as much as possible after so many previous losses.

We were discharged from the clinic at 20 weeks and our beautiful baby boy was born on 17th July 2023 at 39 weeks via a planned c section. Dr Shehata, Ms Silva Edge and Dr Akolakor were all amazing and we can’t thank you enough for finally starting our family.

We started trying to conceive in November 2020 and got pregnant straight away. I was worried cause I had been diagnosed with PCOS years before (no symptoms other than acne) but we were super lucky and got our positive pregnancy test on Christmas Eve 2020.

Sadly we found out we had miscarried on 16th January 2021 (missed miscarriage). We then got pregnant again in March but on the 12th week scan we found out our baby had anencephaly, so I had a D&C to terminate the pregnancy. We were devastated.

By that point we knew we had to do something so we went to a fertility clinic and had all sorts of tests done. Everything came back OK and we were even told that I had no PCOS as far as they could see. So we tried again. And had another missed miscarriage in February 2022.

After this third loss we felt like giving up. We had all possible tests done and were getting no answers. I was desperate to understand what was happening with my body so I read 7 books on pregnancy loss and miscarriage, watched documentaries, researched as much as I could online and talked to other women about possible treatments.

I first read about Prof. Shehata in one of my books. And then started seeing his name everywhere. In podcasts, documentaries and YouTube videos on miscarriages. I knew I had to go see him and his team, so my husband and I had a conversation about money and savings and decided to invest on treatment with the clinic.

We had our first appointment in March 2022. Dr. Shehata and Ms Silva Edge listened to our story and asked for details and explained what kind of tests I would get done. I also left that appointment clearing my doubts about PCOS, as they were able to check it right there and then and it turned out I did have it.

I was put on some medication straight away (metformin) and got blood tests done so we could discuss a plan at my next appointment.

Tests revealed that my body had high levels of NK cells and that it was likely that my immune system was attacking my pregnancies. FINALLY SOME ANSWERS!

They put a plan together for me straight away which consisted of intralipids, adalimumab injections prior to conceiving and prednisolone.

Once we got the green light from them that it was OK to start trying again (in my case it was after 4 adalimumab injections) we got to work and conceived within 2 months. We followed every single step of the treatment to a T, and had scans every 2 weeks with Ms Edge and an anomaly scan with Prof Akolekar. Everything seemed to be going well!! We couldn’t believe how lucky we were as we reached each milestone in our pregnancy.

At 20 weeks we were discharged from the clinic and went into midwifery care under the NHS (I was a bit anxious about this at first as I felt safe at the CRP clinic, it took me a while to get used to it).

We had a very straight forward pregnancy and at 38 weeks + 6 days I went into labour naturally and delivered our sweet baby girl Luna via unplanned C-Section (due to breech presentation). We are so in love with her and can’t believe how lucky we are that we get to be her parents.

The whole team at the clinic is FANTASTIC. The nurses are lovely and so reassuring. We felt welcome from the very beginning. They know how to talk to parents who went through pregnancy loss and are incredibly professional.

We will always be grateful to the CRP for helping us bring this sweet child into the world and we will definitely be back in the future once we’re ready to give Luna a little sibling.

Thank you Dr Shehata and team ❤️❤️