September 30, 2021

The Seven Birthstones

53 minutes

Welcome to another Episode of Fertility Conversations

Today, we are joined by Nicole Narracott @mums.the.word_blog ; who is the author of the newly released book; The Seven Birthstones. She shares with us her fertility journey which includes fertility treatments including the use of donor sperm when she tried as a solo mum before meeting her partner. Her journey included recurrent pregnancy losses. She also considered using donor eggs, but the consultant was unwilling to try again with donor eggs since he felt Nicole would continue miscarrying every pregnancy.

Nicole struggled with the grief of childlessness and grief of losing her babies, and the fact that she was not being recognised as a grieving mother. It took her a long time to come to terms with the fact she wouldn’t be able to carry her own child. Motherhood had always felt like a part of Nicole and she felt life had robbed her of it.

However, when Nicole realised that the battle to carry a biological child was over, she felt the quest for motherhood was still possible. Initially she looked into surrogacy, but this didn’t feel right to either of her and her partner, for no reason they could put our finger on. They are now adopting and have been approved 10 months and currently awaiting a match.

Join us as we listen to her incredible journey. Nicole has a blog: www.mumstheword.blog

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