“I have known Nicola since late 2009 when we met briefly at a fertility convention in central London and established professional contact soon after. Smuts Allsop enquired whether I would be willing to see couples whom she had seen professionally but required medical” – Dr Gedis Grudzinskas

“My husband and I conceived our first son with our first attempt spontaneously, and besides an operation at 16 weeks gestation to remove cysts on both ovaries which they thought to be malignant (and ended up being benign), the rest of the pregnancy and delivery were “- Annette and Brad Bing

“Dear Nicola, just a short email to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Following your advice at the end of last year, I postponed my IVF in December and had my transfer as close as possible to ‘my lucky date.’” — Cressida

“I did have IVF in May — one of the months you gave me — and I did get pregnant, with twins!” — Martina