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Used Money From The Sale Of Her Home, After 17 Cycles Of I.V.F Failed Over 14 Years, Finally Becoming A Mother-Of-Four At 42
A woman has revealed how she finally realised her dream of becoming a mother after 14 years of ʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴀᴄʜᴇ, during which time she sᴜFFᴇʀᴇᴅ ɴᴜᴍᴇʀᴏᴜs ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs, divorced her husband and spent £70,000 on Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ.
“When I went for the sᴄᴀɴ at six weeks she told me it was triplets my legs started shaking. It was a good job I was lying down or I would have Fᴀʟʟᴇɴ over. It was a sʜᴏᴄᴋ, after all those years of ɪɴFᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ and I had three on the way,” she said
Joanne told the former glamour model how she always wanted to be a mother and was prepared to spend whatever it cost.
The former IT worker said: ‘A lot of people say “I want this career, I want that career” but I always wanted to be a mum. I had that passion.’
She told Jodie: ‘That’s when I decided I am getting old, it might take a while to find someone I want to have children with. If I want to do it, I will have to do it on my own. So I went abroad a number of times to use sᴘᴇʀᴍ ᴅᴏɴᴏʀs.’
Using money from the sale of her former marital home, she tried more rounds of I.V.F using a sᴘᴇʀᴍ ᴅᴏɴᴏʀ – but these all Fᴀɪʟᴇᴅ. However, she was determined not to give up.
‘My mum kept asking if I wanted to keep spending the money when the I.V.F wasn’t working and I said I would rather live in a smaller house with children than a bigger house with none,’ Joanne explained.
Her fortunes then took a turn for the better when she met her fiance, Neil, when she was 40. She explained her history and told him if they wanted a family, there was no time to waste. They embarked on rounds of I.V.F together and finally Joanne got the result she had longed for.
Then on my 40th birthday I met the love of my life and I told him if we are going to do it, it has to be now, and he said “okay”‘ she said.
‘On my 13 attempt, I got pregnant with Pippa, then I had a couple more attempts with ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs and then had the triplets on my 17th attempt “.