'A tiny scratch helped us become parents': How new technique of prodding uterus with a plastic stick helped couple to conceive after years of trying

Every year, around 52,000 UK women undergo IVF, but it does not always work. Lara Washington from Staffordshire is one of the first women in the country to undergo an endometrial scratch. 


Doctors had found that some women who'd had a dilation and curettage (D&C), a procedure where tissue from the womb lining is removed to identify what their infertility problem could be, became pregnant the next month. A D&C is similar to what we now do with the 'scratch' technique.