When trying to start a family, infertility is a frightening prospect. So often, it’s considered to be a ‘woman’s issue’. And with a seemingly endless list of factors affecting women’s reproductive systems, from hormones to ovarian cysts, it’s an understandable assumption. But when my husband Shaun and I had trouble conceiving, we discovered that in our case, those assumptions couldn’t be further from the truth.
‘Seeing mums pushing prams made me feel numb’
I met Shaun, then 26, at policing school in 2008. In the same class, we found ourselves in a tight-knit group of friends, and it wasn’t until we left the following year that we confessed our feelings and started a relationship. Married in 2013, we were in no rush to have children, our free
