Our story began in 2005, we had been married a few years and were looking forward to starting our family. We were over the moon when we discovered I was pregnant in May. However, our excitement was short lived when I gave birth at just 23 weeks. Our baby boy was born sleeping ~ never to open his eyes and see the world. We were heartbroken! This escalated when, in 2006 & 2007, I had 2 more stillbirths...another little boy and a little girl ~ my angel babies. I was then diagnosed with an incompetent cervix. As upsetting as this was, when we were told that I could have a stitch put in to keep my cervix closed, we thought this would be the end to our baby issues. Unfortunately, we were wrong!

In 2007, I had an ectopic pregnancy...and then 2 more over the next 2 years! I lost both of my fallopian tubes, had major surgery and said goodbye to any chance of falling pregnant naturally. The next step was IVF!

In 2015, we did our first cycle of IVF but it didn’t look promising when only 1 egg could be retrieved...and just as we thought, our one chance failed to fertilise. We were absolutely gutted! Our only option now was to try again using an egg donor...so we did in 2016. This time, 9 eggs were retrieved and 5 fertilised…could this be it?! I had our precious embryo transferred and waited for 2 weeks to do a pregnancy test. I knew though, before the test, I knew it would be negative and sadly, I was right!

So, that brings you up to date. It will be 12 years this year since my first positive pregnancy test and we still don’t have our baby! We would like to try again using an egg donor but there is no more NHS funding. So, we need your help - please, anything you could spare - big or small will be gratefully received. Fertility treatments are not cheap and we just can’t do this alone! I so desperately want to be a Mum, to cradle my baby, to watch it grow, to love it...oh how I would love it with all my heart. We just want to be a family, we won’t give up! Thank you!x