Clock ticks for us all

“THE pressure to have a child starts soon after being married.

Couples are frequently asked ‘Any news?’. There is a presumption that you will have children, so outside of the pressure of infertility itself, you have the social pressure, the pressure from parents and parents-in-law who are looking forward to being grandparents.”

So says Helen Browne, chair and co-founder of the National Infertility Support and Information Group (NISIG), who is speaking from experience. After seven failed IVF treatment cycles and a decade of trying for a child, she and her husband finally called it a day.