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#CryingShame – Campaign for Fertility Support Services
The #CryingShame for Fertility Fundraising Campaign highlights the isolation, shame, depression, anxiety and tears that accompany the one in six couples in the UK who struggle to conceive each year. We are raising money to enable everyone who is struggling with their mental health and well being during fertility issues,…
Be kind to yourself this Mother’s Day
For anyone in the fertility community Mother’s Day can be one of the most agonising days of the year. You can be bombarded with Mother’s Day posts on social media, as well as adverts on television and cards in shops even in the weeks coming up to this Sunday. No…
#Scream4IVF
WHAT’S UP? The screams of childbirth are loud. But the screams of frustration from not being able to have a child are just as loud. Yet they’re not being heard. THE PROBLEM 1 in 6 couples in the UK experience the pain and devastation of infertility. But 98% of England’s…
Fertility Network at Pride Cymru
24 – 26 August 2018, Cardiff Join Fertility Network as we join in the biggest LGBT+ event in Wales. We are at Pride Cymru 2018 to offer free advice, support, help, information and understanding for anyone affected by fertility issues: • for anyone considering their future fertility • for those…
IVF is 40
Aileen Feeney, chief executive of Fertility Network UK, said: ‘The IVF story over the last 40 years is miraculous: developments in IVF technologies coupled with improvements in IVF success rates mean an estimated 8 million babies have been born worldwide. But there is a dark, often unacknowledged, side to the…
Happy 15th Birthday Fertility Network
Fertility Network will be 15 on 5 July 2018 and we'd love you to help us celebrate. Tell us how we have helped you in the last 15 years or how we can in the future and you could receive our birthday present - a pair of tickets to Hampton…
Facing Father’s Day
Father’s Day can be one of the most difficult days of the year when you are not a father – by circumstance not choice. It is hard to avoid the wall-to-wall celebration and commercialisation of fatherhood: the adverts on TV, the cards in shops, the posts on social media. If…
Reiki and reflexology for fertility info day
Fertility Network Scotland, in conjunction with the Natural Balance Therapy Centre, is holding an information session on Sunday 24 June 2018 at 10 Tay Square, Dundee, for people interested in Reiki and reflexology as useful therapies while trying for a baby. For further information and tickets visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trying-for-a-baby-need-some-help-tickets-46969404754
Research help needed
Can you help? Aberdeen University and NHS Grampian would like you to participate in their study: “Behaviour Change in Women and Men Experiencing Fertility Problems.” We understand that fertility is an important and sensitive issue for many couples and therefore, it is our aim to find out more about the…
Make tea and make a difference
Save the date: come and join Fertility Network for the first London Fertili-tea party on 24 June at 15.30 at the Argyll Arms in Soho. Jessica Hepburn is a guest speaker and Andreia Trigo will be speaking on emotional care, there will be a full afternoon tea, goody bags and…
Medway CCG considering cutting NHS IVF
Medway clinical commissioning group (CCG) is considering cutting access to NHS fertility treatment. Medway CCG currently provides only two partial IVF cycles and is proposing to provide just one partial IVF cycle - one fresh embryo transfer and one frozen embryo transfer. Fertility Network urges patients to take action now…