Baby boom or baby bust?
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If you’d asked me around a year ago where I saw myself now, I’d have answered, half-joking, ‘with a baby’. That is where my life was going. My fiancé and I had started having fertility treatment. Having tried to have children for a year without success, we had been to see a Harley Street specialist and I had begun taking medication. As we explored the first steps towards IVF, I had begun picturing motherhood.
A year later, that all seems pure fantasy. When clinics shut last March, all fertility treatment ceased. Then I split from my fiancé. In the months that followed, as meeting someone during lockdown became increasingly difficult, motherhood slipped into feeling impossible.