Our Safe Space sessions take place monthly on a Zoom call and are often hosted by guest speakers. They are a non-judgmental and confidential environment where you can feel comfortable asking questions, gaining knowledge, and seeking guidance on your journey to parenthood. Whether your camera is on or off, we encourage participation and invite you to continue the conversation in our community area.
Tuesday 6th June
7:00pm - 7:45pm
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Jennifer Elworthy, Career and Fertility Coach.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
Join our LIVE stream from RSA House as we host our Fertility in the Workplace: ‘JOURNEY’ event. We will show you how to create a fertility policy as well as hear from other experts and influencers who will be sharing their real-life stories.
Our Fertility in the Workplace: ‘JOURNEY’ event will feature two panels including Real-life Stories with host, Laura Capell-Abra, and LGBT Mummies Founder Laura-Rose Thorogood, APLBC CEO Linda Bekoe, and Partner at Burgess Mee Family Law Natalie Sutherland.
Our second panel will explore 'How to Build a Fertility Policy' and will feature host Hannah Vaughan Jones and Senior Associate at Lewis Silkin Lisa Dafydd, Career Fertility Coach Jennifer Elworthy, CPC, Senior Corporate Lawyer and Co-chair of 4Womxn at Channel 4 Pamela Bird and Clinical Director of Lister Fertility Clinic James Nicopoullos.
Join here: https://vimeo.com/event/3401983
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Liz Whitehead and Debbie Sutherland, who will share their experiences of undergoing IVF as part of National Infertility Awareness Week #UseYourVoice
Thursday 11th May 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Laura Barnett, author of This Beating Heart, who will share her own experience of undergoing IVF.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
Laura Barnett is an author, journalist and teacher of creative writing. Her fourth novel, This Beating Heart, is rooted in her own experience of undergoing IVF. The lead character’s story is not her own, but an exploration of the physical and emotional impact of fertility treatment lies at the heart of the novel.
Laura is also the author of The Versions of Us, Greatest Hits and Gifts. As an arts journalist and theatre critic, she has written regularly for The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph and Time Out London.
Laura lives with her husband Andy, son Caleb and cat Eno in rural Kent.
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Seetal Savla of www.instagram.com/savlafaire/ who will share her journey with us.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
After six years of battling infertility, which included an early miscarriage and four failed IVF cycles using her own eggs, Seetal Savla was delighted to be pregnant following her first donor egg IVF round, however she sadly devastatingly lost the baby. A few months later out of the blue she conceived her daughter naturally.
She understands the pain and heartache people go through on their fertility journey and shares her own journey to support and help others, and open the conversation around IVF, donor conception and miscarriage, especially within the South Asian community.
Tuesday 7th March - 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Jade Power-Brooke-Langham who will share her journey with us.
Jade started trying for a baby in early 2020 and fell pregnant in the first month of trying. Sadly she had a missed miscarriage at 8 weeks. Afterwards she had her AMH checked and found out it was below 1 and that she had diminished ovarian reserve in early 2021 at age 36. Devastatingly, she suffered another missed miscarriage before having an NHS funded IVF round that year. Amazingly she got one frozen embryo from only 2 eggs, but had transfers cancelled three times after her lining was too thin to go ahead. This is when she decided to do three private freeze-all cycles. She was also diagnosed with raised killer cells and she will be trying naturally with a stimulated immune treatment protocol in 2023. Follow Jade’s journey on https://open.substack.com/pub/thebardo?r=18lsan&utm_medium=ios
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Hayley of All Things Donor Conception who will share her journey with us.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
The Safe Space - Members Virtual Community Catch-Up
Tuesday 24th January
8:30pm - 9:15pm
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month we are delighted to be joined by Laura-Rose Thorogood @lgbt_mummies will share her journey with us.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/95614021769?pwd=cFVYbHJUK2trVzZaNVdXd21PTlUzUT09
Laura-Rose Thorogood is a married lesbian of fifteen years & mother of three children by IUI & IVF treatment spanning over a decade. She is Founder of LGBT Mummies, a global organisation that provides a community & support to LGBT+ women & people on the path to parenthood. She is an LGBT+ Family Activist, fertility advocate, educator, writer, speaker & campaigner. She has met with the Government, made recommendations in Parliament & works with the NHS, other medical governing bodies such as RCOG, NMPA, RCN to shape policies & improve outcomes across maternity, fertility & general healthcare & Law. She is also regularly involved in leading & chairing medical research & studies & writing for the acclaimed Healthcare Journal.
She partners with multiple global organisations, governing bodies & charities & provides them with education & training on supporting LGBT+ family pathways, LGBT+ competency & consultancy services to improve their own services for LGBT+ people. Her goal is to ‘usualise’ LGBT+ families across society, whilst creating a more inclusive future through policy change, accessibility & laws.
Our Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through. This month our founder, Charlotte Gentry, will share her journey with us.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88279262772?pwd=Vkp1M1ZEa1FjWE9LZTV3cnl5a0lHZz09
Our new Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through.
This month we are delighted to be joined by Katy Jenkins who will share her journey with us (www.instagram.com/ivf_got_this_uk/)
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91619902466?pwd=UXFndU5zOHlQOHcwYUg5YUFiaE5EUT09
Meeting ID: 916 1990 2466
Passcode: 459573
Host: Charlotte Gentry, Founder, The IVF Network
Our new Members Virtual Community Catch-Up sessions are a safe space for you to connect, share stories, ask questions, and gain support from other members of The IVF Network who know exactly what you’re going through.
This first session will be hosted by our founder, Charlotte Gentry. Charlotte underwent six ‘exhausting’ and ‘expensive’ years of IVF while trying to fall pregnant with her first child. She established The IVF Network to give others the best possible access to knowledge and support.
We hope you can join us to meet other members and gain support from The IVF Network community.
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