WE TRADED A HOUSE FOR A FAMILY
Sitting in my doctor’s office, I began to sob as she told me the IUI fertility treatment I’d just had, had failed. It was June 2016, and my husband Nathan, then 30, and I had been trying for a baby for three years without success.
‘WE KNEW OUR INCOME WASN’T ENOUGH’
After doctors had discovered I had polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), they’d suggested we try IUI, where sperm is inserted into a woman’s womb, and we were hopeful that I’d fall pregnant – but now we knew I hadn’t, we were devastated.
I’d always loved children and had wanted to be a mum for as long as I could remember. But it was proving much more
