‘It’s very costly, we don’t have medical cards. We have arranged to borrow for the first treatment cycle and we will just take it from there.’

A WICKLOW-BASED couple have put their wedding on hold to fund the cost of trying to conceive.

‘It’s very costly, we don’t have medical cards. We have arranged to borrow for the first treatment cycle and we will just take it from there.’

Together for eight years, Alan Martin, 37, and Paula Campbell, 32, had been trying for a baby for some time before Paula was finally diagnosed with endometriosis last August. In September, with her fallopian tubes beyond repair, she had surgery to have them removed.

“It meant we had no chance physically of conceiving,” Alan says.

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