My Fertility Specialist Magazine November-January 2017 | Página 5

FERTILITY NETWORK UK

National Fertility
Awareness Week 2016
“Do something amazing!”
By Sheila Lamb
For more information go to www.nfaw.org.uk/ Follow on Twitter @infertilityNUK

This coming week is National Fertility Awareness Week or
NFAW for short. During National Fertility Awareness Week,
the Fertility Network UK (formerly the Infertility Network UK),
aim to highlight the unseen, intimate and day-to-day reality
of fertility issues, to overturn commonly-held misconceptions
about fertility and to shine a spotlight on untold fertility
stories.
Fertility issues are all too often misrepresented and
misunderstood. It’s common for media attention to be
focused on stereotypes of fertility struggles: the 30 – or 40
– something career woman who’s left it too late; the againstthe-odds IVF success story or the woman who’s apparently
easily come to terms with childlessness – but this is far from
the real picture.
The five focus areas for this year’s media campaign are:
The myth of the middle-aged would-be-mum: fertility
issues in your 20s and early 30s

There is plenty going on in support of this week, such as:
2nd November there is a Fertility Cycle at Glasgow Central
Station between 8am to 4pm and on the 4th November at
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness in West Kensington there is the
London Fertility Cycle – Static Bike Challenge, see http://
doodle.com/poll/3perkfqcwqwrm6un for more information
and to make a donation.
5th & 6th November is the Fertility Show at Olympia,
London. See http://www.fertilityshow.co.uk/ for more
information.
And on YouTube, listen to the HiddenFaces stories: https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRHtFRNTJYS-mJJuvu6V1w/
videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0
To keep up to date with all that is going on, follow NFAW on
Twitter @FertilityNUK, on Facebook FertilityNetworkUK and
pinterest InfertilityUK

The truth about fertility treatment: IVF fails 75% of
the time; what is it like to face multiple rounds of
treatment?
The hidden half: men are just as likely as women to
suffer from fertility issues
Facing up to childlessness: coming to terms
with childlessness is too often portrayed as a
straightforward process, when the reality is far from
that
Life after successful IVF: the taboo of secondary
infertility and can life as the parent of an IVF miracle
ever be normal?

My Fertility Specialist / Nov-Jan, 2017

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