I am proof that it can be done

WHEN Radio Kerry presenter Deirdre Walsh, 44, married journalist Dermot Crean, 39, the couple never put a time-scale on having children.

“I wasn’t one of those women who always wanted a big family or was dying to have kids. We knew we both wanted children — I wanted a daughter — but our attitude was it’ll happen when it’s meant to,” Deirdre explains.

When she got pregnant in her early 30s in 2002, the couple were thrilled but a miscarriage before her 12-week scan left them gutted. Exactly a year later, she fell pregnant and once more endured an even earlier miscarriage.