SHOULD OVER-50s BE ALLOWED IT?

It’s still hard to believe – they’re my little miracles I was so determined I lost 3stone to qualify for IVF

NO FEARS FOR FUTURE ‘We’ll focus on every day we have together’

MUM AT LAST LAST CHANCE MY husband Paul and I spent five years trying to conceive. We had lots of tests and tried many different things before we were referred for IVF.

There’s a lot of heartache when you have failed attempts.

We qualified for three goes on the NHS and had our daughter Darcie, four.

We self-funded two more rounds after Darcie – and I got pregnant both times but I miscarried.

I still had hope, I knew I AFTER our marriage in 2013, my husband Matthew and I began trying for a baby. It wasn’t happening and it got really stressful.

We were told we needed IVF and I lost three stone in four months in order to qualify.

I was very determined to become a mum.

Our first appointment was in May 2015.

At first I just didn’t respond to the drugs and a week or so in I was advised to cancel and would have another baby and wanted to do anything I could to keep trying.

In 2016 we took out a loan for our final attempt, bringing the total we’d spent on IVF up to £16,000.

When we went for our scan at seven weeks we were told we had triplets but they found a fourth baby at our 12-week scan.

It’s still hard to believe – they’re my little miracles.

IVF provided the answer for all my dreams. start my cycle from the beginning.

But I asked the consultant if there was any chance it could work and decided I had to go for it.

I got three eggs, two of them were fertilised and Phoebe took.

I found out I was pregnant that September and she was born in May 2016.

We feel that we are very blessed. We don’t have as much money and we’re exhausted all the time, but Phoebe is just fantastic.

BLESSED