Conceivable Dreams

📝 Share your fertility story with us! In honour of World IVF Day, we’re collecting letters to raise awareness on social media around the fertility challenges family's face as we continue to advocate for a fertility tax credit in Ontario. 🌟💌 Send your letters to [email protected] or submit them via the link in our bio!

While answers varied, most people spent over $30,000 on treatment.

Big news for Canadians in British Columbia! The Finance Minister announced funding that will cover one cycle of IVF for its residents beginning in 2025.

While this doesn't directly change our coverage here in Ontario, there's no doubt that movement anywhere in Canada will create ripple effects. This helps to fuel our advocacy work here in Ontario too. Fertility treatment is a priority, especially for the 1 in 6 Canadians who require help to build their families, and should be a priority for its governments as well.

Katrine Conroy teared up when delivering the announcement. Link to full video in story!

The costs for creating a family seem endless. Here are the most common expenses according to our Ontario patient survey. What were your top costs?

Did you know to reduce your wait, you can join waitlists at more than one clinic? Once your time comes, just be sure to remove yourself from other waitlists to speed up time for others.

This one shocked us. We thought it would be 100%! It’s an important reminder that even “free” funded cycles come with costs. Sometimes costs that make even a funded cycle unattainable.

More than 1,000 Ontarians participated in our first ever OFP patient survey. This month, we will be share some of the highlights. Please reshare to raise awareness. 💕

Welcome to our newest board member Renee Higgins from Sudbury! A passionate advocate for patient rights, Renee has her sights set on improving access for people in Northern Ontario and education you can follow her .baby.plan.

Thanks to and for shedding the light on egg freezing and our Fertility Benefits Matters campaign.

Peek a boo! One the bright spots in our lobby day on November 1 was seeing the wee ones that give us hope for many more in the future. 💕

Progress towards more inclusive family building. The ASRM definition is now:
“Infertility" is a disease, condition, or status characterized by any of the following:
• The inability to achieve a successful pregnancy based on a patient's medical, sexual, and reproductive history, age, physical findings, diagnostic testing, or any combination of those factors.
• The need for medical intervention, including, but not limited to, the use of donor gametes or donor embryos in order to achieve a successful pregnancy either as an individual or with a partner.
• In patients having regular, unprotected in*******se and without any known etiology for either partner suggestive of impaired reproductive ability, evaluation should be initiated at 12 months when the female partner is under 35 years of age and at six months when the female partner is 35 years of age or older.

Meet the board - including some of our junior members. From L to R: Heather, Ivy, Scottie, Zane, Tara and Cassandra.

It’s rare we are all together in one place so this was a magic moment ✨

We had a fantastic turn out at our breakfast reception to kick off our Lobby Day at Queens Park. Thanks to and for speaking and supporting 💪🏻. And thank you to for sponsoring the breakfast. No one does eggs better 😝🥚

Even with government funding, fertility treatments are a financial burden. We asking the to create a fertility tax credit to complement the Ontario Fertility Program . Join us by sharing and tagging your MPP.

In fact, this should be 100%. There are still mandatory tests (like AMH blood test) and any drugs required for IVF that are not covered.

If you had a funded cycle though the OFP, what else did you have to pay for?

This spring more than 1,000 people participated in our survey of the Ontario Fertility Program. The findings are guiding us to our next advocacy efforts. Our plan is to work with government to secure more funding for patients to help cover the costs of drugs and travel. 👊🏻 ✨💕

We will have more to share on this in the fall. If you care, please share or donate.

Spotted! Board members and watching the CN Tower go green at ’s event in !

This celebratory outing followed a very productive board meeting with our GR firm yesterday afternoon talking about next steps for advocacy for patients on

Join us to learn why Fertility Benefits Matter. sits down with to share how the fertilitybenefits matter.ca campaign is going and how YOU can talk to your employer about more inclusive family friendly benefits.

We are happy to see this new budget item in Canada’s 2023 Budget aimed at supporting families experiencing pregnancy loss - including through adoption or surrogacy. While this is a step in the right direction, there is more work to do. Conceivable Dreams will continue to advocate for all Canadians experiencing infertility.

The first step to bettering Ontario’s fertility care is knowing the current status. Help us gain critical data in our survey (link in bio).

Help us to collect much needed data on accessing fertility care in Ontario by completing our survey today. Link in bio.

Help us make an impact in the future of fertility care in Ontario! Visit the link in our bio to complete our 5 minute survey about your experience accessing funded cycles of IVF, IUI, and FP.

Have you heard about onfertility.fyi? They have created a database to track wait times for the Ontario Fertility Program. Check it out!

Happy holidays everyone. ✨

G I V I N G T U E S D A Y. Help us help Canadians to more affordable and accessible fertility treatment. 💕

Our president, , is presenting at the conference today to decision makers in the insurance and benefits industry about why Fertility Benefits Matter and how they can embed them in plans!

September is PCOS Awareness month. Polycystic o***y syndrome (PCOS) is a reproductive disorder that affects approximately 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. It is the leading cause of female infertility. PCOS is also a risk factor for other metabolic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease ♥️
The goal of PCOS awareness month is to: ✅ increase awareness and education of PCOS
✅ improve diagnostic and treatment options
✅ improve quality of life for those with PCOS.
Do you have PCOS? Comment below and share your story.

Happy Friday! 🙌Have you checked out our Fertility Benefits Matter campaign?
We believe any Canadian that needs help building their family, should be able to get it. If you are looking for help on how to improve your workplace coverage, we’ve got loads of great information on our website 👍. Link in story.

A gentle reminder from our friends at Pregnancy announcements can be incredibly hard to swallow if you're struggling with infertility.

We know it can be painful to see someone else's pregnancy announcement and not be able to share that joy with them, but don't worry—you're allowed to feel that way.

But you also don't have to keep those painful feelings bottled up inside. It's so important to build a support system—whether it be with your friends, family members, therapists, coaches, or other people in your network—and put your feelings into words so that they don't bottle up inside. 💚