MAYBE baby

Leah Bradley, 39, from Hull

Clutching the pregnancy test, I stared anxiously at it, willing the little blue line to appear that would tell me I was going to be a mum.

But the window on the test stayed obstinately empty. I blinked away tears as I threw the test into the bin.

I’d never heard of secondary infertility

‘Never mind, darling,’ my husband Joe said, pulling me in for a cuddle. ‘It’ll happen next time.’ ‘Of course it will,’ I said, trying to smile. After all, we’d conceived our first child, William, then three, with no problems whatsoever so hadn’t anticipated too much trouble the second time around.

But the months rolled by, and I didn’t fall pregnant. After seven months of this,