Source: Calls for legal right to paid leave for IVF treatment – BBC News
Natalie Rowntree from North Yorkshire has recently started her IVF journey, and describes the process as “intense”.
The 38-year-old has had seven IVF-related appointments in the space of eight weeks, including multiple blood tests, scans and X-rays, one of which left her in physical discomfort for “a good few days”.
As is the nature of fertility treatment, all of these appointments have to be done at very specific times of the month – and fitting this around her job at a private opticians has proven difficult.
“I’ve just been using sick days and holidays to go through these appointments,” she says.
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