Our Story

My wife always wanted a girl. Her first child was a boy, her second child was a boy, and when she was pregnant the third time she went to a palm reader who told her it was going to be a girl. She was over the moon!…. Until she gave birth to ANOTHER boy! This time she was completely devastated and vowed never to try again. She had accepted that she would never have a baby girl… until we heard of gender selection IVF!

We did tonnes of research online and found out it is possible in a few countries around the world. The USA is very expensive and far away. There are a few countries in Asia, but this is also really far away and also didn’t feel safe to us for some reason. Our research lead is to Cyprus (the Turkish side), where there are loads of clinics. We spoke to them all and many seemed like a scam. Avoiding answering important questions, demanding payment in cash, horrible reviews etc… We enlisted the help of a friend from Cypress who did the research, read the reviews and decided on the best clinic. We were sure we were in safe hands and flew to Cyprus.

The clinic we’d chosen was in a big hospital, but it seemed like something from the third world. Dark, dingy, and generally filthy, we were shocked but pressed on with the task at hand. When we met the doctor, he was bright yellow and clearly on death’s door. My wife had an immediate panic attack. He didn’t speak a word of English and seemed shifty and blasé. We wanted to back out but were committed by then because my wife had already taken 2 weeks of hormone treatment ready for the procedure. We gritted our teeth and hoped for the best. It didn’t go well. They actually gave my wife some additional drugs to take afterwards and we found out this was only to force a false positive pregnancy test so we would appear the only people to blame for the failed procedure. After some much deeper research we discovered we’d been scammed. Such a heartbreaking and horrible experience.

We were just about to go to America for a $25,000 price tag when we were recommended another clinic much nearer. As you can imagine we were very sceptical after our recent experience so demanded we speak to some previous patients. They gladly obliged and we spoke to 3 different people who all had success with this clinic, we trusted them and decided to give it a go.

The clinic is amazing! Clean, modern, with wonderful staff who all speak English. We were instantly put at ease and knew we could trust them to do a good job… and they did! 9 months later we had a beautiful baby girl called Heidi. Here she is -

Heidi needed a sister, so when she was 1 year old we flew back and did it again. We now have 2 beautiful daughters 22 months apart in age and couldn’t be happier.

We felt it important to spread the word about this wonderful clinic to help other people balance their families and stop them making the awful mistakes we did. Get in touch, we’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you have.

With love,

Henry, Leilani, Heidi & Quinn.