"Here is a picture of our beautiful baby boy who was born on 25th November. When I had the embryo replacement on 13th March, I didn't expect it to work after eight natural cycle donor inseminations and one round of IVF that had given me eight embryos, but that resulted in a miscarriage, three that failed to implant and three that perished after spending years 'in the freezer'. I had left it a long time before plucking up the courage to use my stored embryos, I wanted to have a break from treatment after the miscarriage and the failures to implant, and somehow years went by. In the end I was afraid to use them because they were 'safe' in the freezer, and I had become too old to get pregnant any other way! I keep reminding myself that he isn't a miracle, he is the result of living in a country that allows fertility research and treatment of same sex couples, and of the work of the doctors and nurses and the brilliant service at Manchester Fertility. Thank you so much."
