Strolling along the beach with my hubby Ryan, then 30, we daydreamed about our future together.
On holiday in Europe, we felt more relaxed than ever.
'Why don't we start trying for a baby?' I suggested.
Married 18 months earlier, we'd agreed to wait a while before starting a family. Now though, the timing felt right to try.
When I hadn't fallen pregnant nine months later, we met with a fertility specialist.
Blood test results revealed I wasn't ovulating properly, so I took ovulation stimulating tablets.
Unfortunately, that proved unsuccessful, so we tried intrauterine insemination (IUI). When that sadly failed as well, we took the next
leap - IVF. At $5000 a round, it was a lot of money, but we were lucky to have savings.
Having an embryo implanted, we were confident it'd work. So when my pregnancy test came back negative, I was devastated.
On our second try we received good news.
'Your transfer was successful,' a nurse said.
But it wasn't to be. Scans revealed the fertilised egg had implanted in an unknown location, not in my womb, so I had to take medicine to end the pregnancy.
After eight more failed rounds, I felt like my time to have a baby was running out. I was distraught.
'I may never be a mum,' I cried to Ryan.
'Anything worth having is worth fighting for,' he'd remind me.
There must be some reason why this isn't working,
I thought, frustrated.
We found a new specialist who organised more tests.
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