Menopause isn’t something that many women have to think about until much later in life. But imagine going through it early, in the prime of your life when you’re ready for a family. Imagine being told that now, you won’t ever be able to have your own biological child...
A young couple from Staffordshire turned to their local newspaper recently to try and find an egg donor. The couple have spent all of this year in second place on their local hospital waiting list for a donor egg, having been told they could be waiting an ‘indefinable’ amount of time for an egg donor to come forward due to the acute shortage of egg donors...
Imagine going through the menopause in your twenties. You aren’t even in a serious relationship yet, but here you are unable to have children before you’ve even decided you want them. Or imagine you’re going through gruelling cancer treatment in your thirties. You wanted to wait a bit longer for children, but now there’s a chance you’ll never get pregnant naturally.