Picking my daughter up from school, she told me about her day.
Holding Yasmin’s hand, she explained how she’d learnt all about family trees.
Only, all her classmates had little brothers and big sisters to add to their branches.
‘Can I have a brother or sister?’ Yasmin, then four, asked me.
‘I would like that one day, too,’ I replied. ‘It’s just not as easy for us.’
With polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), I wasn’t sure I would be able to conceive naturally again.
Falling pregnant with Yasmin just before I turned 17, she had been a miracle baby.
And from when she was just a baby, I knew I wanted Yasmin to have a sibling.
But sadly, that didn’t seem to be the case.
‘Something could happen, but it probably won’t,’ the doctor said when I was 18.
It was devastating to hear – at 18 I should have
