‘We’d raise her as a sassy, strong, confident girl’ ‘He looks out for his sister – reaches things she can’t’ Leaving the doctor’s surgery, I felt sad and frustrated. It was 2010, and me and my husband Steve, 51, were struggling to conceive.
Yet tests couldn’t find anything wrong.
‘Unexplained infertility,’ the doctor called it.
‘Sometimes people just aren’t compatible,’ he’d said.
I already had a son, Mitchell, 18, and Steve had two kids, Thomas, 21, and Zoe, 23, from a previous relationship.
And I’d fallen pregnant with Mitchell accidentally while on the Pill!
‘It’s not fair,’ I said sadly.
Our best chance to have a baby together was fertility treatment.
So, in 2012, using our savings and scrimping for the rest, we tried IUI - artificial insemination. It failed.…
