‘With fertility there are no guarantees, at times that was an unbearably painful lesson’

I expected to come back from my honeymoon pregnant. I was 34 and I was, according to my app, ovulating. It was the beginning of autumn and I thought I would have a baby by the beginning of the next summer. As it turns out, things weren’t so simple. I didn’t get pregnant that month, or the month after that, or the month after that. In fact, that month was just the beginning of an...