In her new W Channel documentary, Alex Jones: Making Babies, Welsh TV presenter Alex Jones explores IVF and fertility and actually trains to become a fertility assistant and during the process she comes across one doctor who 'terrifies' her into being the model student. . The ten-part documentary sees Alex working for six months on the front line of one of the most prestigious fertility clinics in the UK, King’s Fertility London.
She has been given the chance to train as a fertility assistant, learning how to chaperone patients, take blood and assist in embryo transfers and egg collections, experiencing the highs and lows of the emotional journey patients take.
In the first episode of the documentary, which will air at 8pm on W Channel on Thursday, December 5, Alex meets the boss of King's Fertility Dr Ippokratis Sarris. When first meeting Alex she is given a stern warning by Dr Sarris to be "a help not a hindrance" and describes him as "terrifying".
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Sitting outside Dr Sarris's office Alex admits that she is nervous. She says: "I'm sitting outside like a naughty school girl...I'm quite, I dunno, I'm quite anxious. I don't know what to expect, I think his expectations are going to be very high as well so I just hope that I can please."
Dr Sarris quickly told Alex that he "strives for perfection" which can mean that he has "a very short and small tolerance for mistakes". Alex said that she wanted to be a "good help and not a hindrance" to which Dr Sarris replied: "I hope so too. I'm not going to lie, I hope so too".
Alex promised to take her time at King's Fertility "extremely seriously" and said: "I will be a good student and I will listen and I'll ask and I will try and be a support." After she was dismissed by Dr Sarris and sent back to work Alex called him "terrifying", she said: "You are terrifying! See you later" before struggling with the door out of the office.
While promoting the documentary on ITV morning programme Lorraine, Alex spoke about her own miscarriage and how she and her husband Charlie Thomson considered IVF. Speaking to the Telegraph previously Alex explained how she had a miscarriage after the birth of her first son Teddy and before the birth of her second son Kit.
She said: "We actually got pregnant in October 2017, when Teddy was 10 months, and we lost that baby. I didn’t realise for a long time because I had been breastfeeding and your periods don’t come back straight away." Alex explained: "We learnt the baby didn’t have a heartbeat. I was around 14 weeks, which is a decent amount of time. The baby had stopped developing at about nine weeks. That was really hard. It hit us like a ton of bricks."
This is also not the first time that Alex has presented a documentary about fertility. Alex Jones: Fertility & Me aired on BBC Two in 2016 as Alex explored fertility issues for women in their mid-thirties.
Here she found out her mother went through the menopause aged 44 and talked to IVF experts. Alex currently has three children, Teddy, Kit and Annie with her husband Charlie Thomson. She gave birth to her third girl, Annie, in 2021 and Annie was a surprise pregnancy. You can read more about Alex here.
You can watch Alex Jones: Making Babies, Thursdays at 8pm on W Channel.
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