{"id":525,"date":"2021-11-04T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=525"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:16:13","slug":"the-ivf-experience-opening-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"The IVF Experience opening workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were thrilled to launch our online event series ‘The IVF Experience’<\/em> this week. Our\u00a0first workshop coincided with Fertility Network UK’s National Fertility Awareness Week<\/a>, which is an whole week dedicated to having conversations about infertility and the realities of fertility treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our first workshop was hosted by Sarah Norcross from the The Progress Educational Trust<\/a>. Workshop participants had wide-ranging experiences of and relationships to IVF, which fostered really important conversations about the complexities of treatment decision-making for patients, feelings of control and lack of control, and the role of embryo images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are excited to have more conversations with others at our next workshops! See our Events<\/a> page for information about how to sign up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were thrilled to launch our online event series ‘The IVF Experience’ this week. Our\u00a0first workshop coincided with Fertility Network UK’s National Fertility Awareness Week, which is an whole week dedicated to having conversations about infertility and the realities of fertility treatment.\u00a0 Our first workshop was hosted by Sarah Norcross from the The Progress Educational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[45,28,44],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-national-fertility-awareness-week","tag-public-engagement","tag-the-ivf-experience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9YI6o-8t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":530,"url":"https:\/\/remakingthehumanbody.sbm.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=530","url_meta":{"origin":525,"position":0},"title":"Event report: The question of add-ons and evidence","date":"30th November 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"On November 9th we had the pleasure to host another stimulating workshop, organised in cooperation with the Progress Educational Trust. 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