Coronavirus special: How to cope when treatment is cancelled
Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF
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🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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As the UK braces for the pandemic to hit, thousands of patients undergoing fertility treatment are having cycles cancelled. How do you cope? We spoke to perinatal psychologist Julianne Boutaleb, of Parenthood in Mind, about keeping calm when it feels like your world is crashing down.
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| 0:25.0 | Hello. You're listening to B. F.N. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the podcast about Infatility IVF and the trials of trying for a baby. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Gabby and I'm Emma and we're both card-carrying members of the Infagility Club. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey guys, about two weeks ago we recorded an intro to our first episode of the next series, and that's because the coronavirus is already |
| 1:05.2 | around and we were a bit concerned that we wouldn't be able to travel but we did |
| 1:07.9 | make a lot of jokes about the coronavirus. We did I may have, I Corona a couple of times. Yeah, but now obviously as things have moved on |
| 1:18.8 | there's a huge number of people who've had their cycles cancelled is getting pretty serious. |
| 1:26.0 | It is, shit's getting real and we were being a bit facetious so we wanted to actually |
| 1:31.5 | create an additional podcast that would actually be quite helpful at this time. |
| 1:36.4 | It's a very, very, very quick little bonus episode. |
| 1:39.0 | We've spoken to Julianne Bhutaleb. |
| 1:41.0 | She's a perinatal psychologist who specializes in fertility issues and that is just |
| 1:46.8 | she's she's provided some kind of exercises and some ideas for keeping calm and trying not to go |
| 1:52.4 | like trying to avoid that incredibly dark place that |
| 1:56.8 | certainly I went to when I have my cycles cancelled. |
| 1:59.9 | It's an additional stress on an already stressful situation for patients going through treatments. |
| 2:04.8 | So yeah, it's important to work out what we can do to minimize any trauma. |
| 2:10.4 | So the situation as it stands is moving so very fast that by tomorrow we're |
| 2:17.1 | recording this on the 17th of March things will probably be out of date. So, you know, take this essentially the best place is to keep an eye |
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