For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a mother. To have my own little family. I have always been the type of person to look ahead rather than the present, so when I met my now husband I knew we would have children eventually.
We waited and enjoyed life for a while but sadly others around us experienced losses and fertility issues, something I had not thought about or even faced before growing up. It made me ask myself, “could I help them”, was there something I could do – to at least allow a glimmer of hope that the unachievable may in fact be reachable after all?
I briefly looked into egg donation and touched on surrogacy but due to potential health risks to myself it was decided, as a couple, to complete our own family first; so over the course of 5 years we went on to have two healthy and wonderful children, a boy and a girl. Feeling complete and happy with life, I was now faced with the thoughts I had first encountered 8 years previously.
How could I help a family that desperately needed a helping hand?
Queue lots and lots of research. Mainly online and through support forums where I met a lot of incredible women who had selflessly aided other couples before and could provide me with de