#FertilityintheWorkplace

‘It is impossible to talk about a fertility journey without considering your employer’

I am very lucky that after five years which included six rounds of Clomid, eleven rounds of IVF, fourteen embryos and four miscarriages, we did get our miracle baby boy. Now four years down the line we are still trying to complete our family. I have had another nine rounds…

Fertility Journeys in Defence

Serving or being a partner of someone serving within the UK’s Armed Forces is a unique, rewarding, but challenging lifestyle. It’s also a job which impacts our family lives due to the posting cycle requiring us to regularly move across the country and overseas, as well as significant periods of…

The importance of fertility in the workplace support

I had three rounds of ICSI over a three-year period, with a total of seven embryo transfers – all were unsuccessful. This extremely distressing time in my life was made far worse because of the lack of support from my employer. (For most of my fertility treatment I worked as…

‘I’m so glad I spoke up and contributed to progress in my workplace’

‘We got married in April 2016 and planned to start a family soon after. We had both forged our way through our careers to get to where we wanted to be and, although nothing in life is ever easy, everything we had planned and wanted to do had so far…