I was a first-time mum to TWINS AT 50

I can vividly remember the day I terminated a pregnancy at the age of 32. It was March 2000 and I was living in Sydney with my boyfriend, having moved there from the UK when I was 21. I knew with every fibre of my being that I wanted to be a mum yet, when I excitedly found out I was pregnant, my partner had the opposite reaction. ‘I don’t even want to think about kids yet,’ he said, with finality.

Of course, I could have raised the baby alone but, from my own personal experience, I knew how hard it was to have separated parents and