Lab Romanticism: IVF Ritual

Aspiring parents who choose to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive a child, are confronted with the clinical reality of the fertility clinic. This reality, and the process they undergo, is often perceived as sterile and detached. Lab Romanticism provides these parents with a ritual that reconnects them to this process and turn it into a shared experience. In this ritual they are invited to be mindful of the last three to five days of the IVF process, in which the embryo ‘travels’ through different stages before it’s placed back into the uterus.

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