Being told you may never conceive naturally is very hard to hear. Being told you may never be a mum at all is one of the hardest things anyone can be told. Being told you can carry a child, but they won’t be genetically related to you, is hugely complicated news to process…

Fertility was something I never thought about. Infertility didn’t even figure on my radar. School was all about ensuring we knew how not to get pregnant and that was the extent of my thinking about it. Finding myself single again in my 30s, yet keen to start a family, I felt I should…