Coping with childlessness and numerous unsuccessful IVF attempts takes enormous courage and strength. Add this to swimming the English Channel and climbing Mount Everest and you have the most incredible Jessica Hepburn.

We discuss how so many aspects of life and nature are completely out of our control which has lead to a form of acceptance that this is the case.

We openly discuss the very different backgrounds to childlessness which we have from 11 failed IVF attempts for Jessica to walking away from IVF and then it being too late which is my story. We talk about the different lives we have and could have had but also the acceptance of the lives we currently lead.

The commonality is that we both have the same touch stones in our journey which we can share even when our stories are so unique.

This is the beauty of the childless community - the diversity of our stories yet the familiarity of the challenges involved.