Starting a family is no longer as simple as meeting a partner and falling in love. I’m not sure if fertility challenges are becoming more common, or just more spoken about – but it certainly feels as though both are true.

While stories about fertility challenges are becoming more common, no two are the same.

In today’s episode, I sit down with Kim and Gus from Umbearra Station, 4 hours south of Alice Springs.

Fertility challenges don’t discriminate, and I don’t think it’s as black and white as saying that someone’s journey is easier or harder than anyone else’s – they all have their unique aspects. For Kim and Gus, their remote location meant that they ended up traveling in excess of 40,000 km to conceive their first two children.

To start our conversation, I asked them to take me back to the very start of their journey trying to start a family.

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