Founder, Brand Consultant & Creative Director helping one-of-a-kind brands to be understood and chosen | Building Woven, Potting Shed, and In Crowd | Failed Musician | IVF Dad
Workplace, depression, politics.
In part 2 of our conversation with the BBC we covered a few big “taboos” - but aren’t these the things we need to be talking about?
With 1 in 6 couples facing fertility issues (WHO), is infertility a niche issue or a mainstream concern?
The stats might shock you👇
56% of women fear disclosing fertility struggles will harm their career progression. Fertility Network UK
12% of women undergoing IVF quit their careers due to a lack of support from their employer Zurich UK
90% of people living with infertility report experiencing depression or anxiety Middlesex University
£30,000 average lifetime cost of treatment in the UK without additional fertility insurance twoplus Fertility
70% of couples go into debt to fund fertility treatments like IVF UK Research and Innovation
8.3 Workdays missed per treatment cycle by employees undergoing fertility treatment Fertility Network UK
So what happens next?
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In Crowdhttps://lnkd.in/ey-vC-cX#IWD#IVF#infertility#fertility#guernsey#incrowd#IWD25
Yeah, I mean, I found it extremely overwhelming and I wasn't even sure if we really wanted to, if I wanted to do IVF. You were quite keen to. But at the point I was thinking, hang on a second, one minute we're thinking about having a baby in the next minute. I mean, it's not the next minute, a couple of years, but then you get to a point where you think. Ohh, Now we've got to start thinking about invasive treatment, you know, like, and for me particularly being the female, it's it is quite invasive and it can be invasive from men as well, but you don't hear so much about that. And again, it's just. Trying to figure out what you're happy to do, what you're not happy to do. It is just a very overwhelming place to be. Yeah, I know at the moment there is some help available. But in terms of IVF, Islanders currently have to go off island to to receive help in time. Once this conversation keeps going, are you hoping that that will change at some point in the future? Is that a realistic thing that you're looking forward to in the future? I think, you know, we often hear people talk about, you know, the future of our island and. We'll talk about retirement age going up and about the money to support the community through local taxpayers. And actually I think that you do have to have a holistic solution. And we're not politicians, but we can understand that if people are having less children, then it's it's not making the situation any better. So I think at some point the island probably will have to start thinking about how do we help make it as easy as possible for people to have children if they're having children later and having less children, how do we make it more attractive? Because if one in six people do suffer with infertility then. It's a big deal actually, and by not solving, but providing options for those people can be really beneficial to our island, but also to our workplaces because most people, but the statistics are specifically about women. Most women who are living with infertility go into depression. And so that obviously affects workplace. Most women who are living with infertility have their relationships affected with their employers and their workplaces. And so I think it all adds up and feel like not only are you going through something that's really difficult, but you don't have any help from your local government in in maybe the same way that that there might be. Elsewhere I think is really difficult and I do think that at some point it should be on the table to discuss.
