For employers
An innovative fertility benefit your employees didn’t know they needed
Help retain top talent and promote employee wellness by offering emotional and spiritual support to your staff and their families who are utilizing IVF as part of their family building efforts.
No longer a minority experience, IVF, IUI, and surrogacy is increasingly utilized by people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. It’s likely that a significant percentage of your staff is considering or actively pursuing treatments.
Unfortunately, IVF remains a stressful and isolating experience. Your employees need emotional support on this journey that can extend for years, impacting relationships, work, and general wellness.
Most people going through IVF work with a fertility clinic. The fertility clinic experience remains primarily focused on medical treatments and procedures. While some clinics employ social workers, those people are usually used in very specific contexts like consulting on the use of a donor egg. In most cases, support staff are not there for general, ongoing support.
Currently available fertility and family benefits are largely focused on money for medical treatments during the process and paid parental leave afterwards. Emotional support and counseling is rarely a part of the conversation.
The support that RVT IVF provides fills a much needed fertility benefit gap for companies of all sizes.
Working with RVT IVF involves regularly scheduled remote and phone meetings that are typically twice-monthly or weekly, depending on need. Together, with your employees and their families, we craft personalized sessions catered to the goals and needs of their fertility journey, including:
Holding safe and brave space for stress, uncertainty, pain, and fear of the IVF/IUI/surrogacy process
Coping with loss and change
Celebrating milestones and successes
Ritual and spiritual support, including embryo burial
Identifying and connecting to resources, coping mechanisms, and sources of resilience
Helping them draw on their own wisdom to make sense of their experience
Strategizing for strong communication with their care team and for positive medical appointments
Considering how to share information with their community to get the support that they need
Navigating conflict within or between families
Supportive care before and after scans and appointments
Marking time and stages, including egg retrievals, transfers, procedural scans, receiving results
Ongoing support before, during, and after pregnancy
Regardless of their identity, background, or how they found themselves on the IVF journey, RVT IVF has the expertise and cultural humility to support everyone:
A pediatric healthcare worker, who knows firsthand all of the challenging situations that can happen with pregnancy and birth. Working with RVT IVF, they have been exploring her emotions along her IVF path, marking milestones and contemplating rituals as she prepares to give birth after a successful embryo transfer.
A queer couple who utilized IVF for their future family-expanding plans. They worked with RVT IVF to hold space for the emotional, physical, and mental work of a retrieval process, donor selection, and embryo testing.
A couple deciding whether or not to use donor eggs. RVT IVF helped them to navigate family dynamics and their own emotions in the decision making process.
A family navigating multiple miscarriages in their IVF journey. RVT IVF accompanied them as they mourned these losses, and supported them as they contemplated their next steps.
An individual considering IVF and parenthood. RVT IVF gave them the tools to assess their goals, envision the future they hoped for, and identify the types of support they’d need on their path.