December can be a tough time of year for those who are trying to conceive with every day of the advent calendar bringing more sadness as everyone around you seems to grow with excitement. Everywhere you look you’re reminded of the family time you aren’t having with your own children at Christmas. Perhaps you’re relieved …
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Fertility treatment has the habit of making teachers feel like they’re not doing very well at their jobs. Appointments all happen during the working day at a clinic that is usually further away than the local hospital down the road. Staff will be told they need to cover their colleagues lessons, and unless …
Should is unhelpful and comes from a judgmental place; it is a projection of what other people want us to do, or what we think we are supposed to be doing based on outside pressures that we have internalised. It is rooted in guilt. We come across so many should’s when faced with fertility issues. …
Should men/ partners feel pressured to return to work sooner even though they are experiencing grief? They haven’t had a physical loss but certainly the loss of a future they became excited about and had started to plan for. Both people in the relationship start to imagine themselves as a parent and a …
The burgundy book is 20 years out of date. When it is updated, the chances are that paid leave for fertility treatment will be included. False economy A GP will sign an employee off work without hesitation for an entire cycle of fertility treatment, which including the two week wait (post embryo transfer) can be …
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Some of the ways staff could work flexibly throughout fertility treatment are: Compressed hours Late starts Early finishes PPA at home Team teaching Why do teachers need to work flexibly throughout fertility treatment? It’s not as easy for teachers to work flexibly throughout treatment due to the nature of the job. Teachers are unable to …
With the lack of supportive work places for employees undergoing fertility treatment a career break might be the solution. How possible this is, however, is another thing: to take anything from a school term to a year off in an attempt to start a family is expensive in itself particularly when there are clinic bills …
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