Pick Me Up! Special

My £60k boy

Taking a deep breath, I opened my eyes and picked up the pregnancy test sitting on the bathroom sink.

Please be positive, I prayed.

But when I turned it over, my heart sank

‘It’s another negative,’ I told my husband, Simon, sadly.

We’d been trying for so long, but it just wasn’t happening for us.

I felt time ticking by, and at 37 I wasn’t getting any younger, so we decided to see a doctor.

When I was eventually diagnosed with unexplainable fertility problems, it was a huge blow.

It meant IVF was our only chance of

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