Our baby journey

My name is Amber I’m 30 years old and have been with my partner Leah 25 for just over 5 years now.

We live in Perth Western Australia, and have done many things in our relationship including moving to the country, building our own house and of course after meeting the one, coming out to both our families both of whom are the most supportive and amazing families and don’t treat us any differently than any other couple.

2 1/2 years ago when I was 14 weeks pregnant with our first child, I found out at our scheduled 3mth scan that my baby had anencephaly a neural tube defect. We lost our baby the following week and grieved for what we had been told was a baby girl. A year later we went to a fertility clinic in the hope of trying once again for a baby and were then told our baby we lost was a boy, so once again I grieved this time for the son I lost.

With my first pregnancy my partner inseminated me at home and we successfully fell pregnant the first month we tried. After finally getting a donor with the fertility clinic we attempted our first attempt at trying for another baby. It has been 8 long and painful months and after 5 failed attempts we are still trying for our much longed for baby.

I am booked in for surgery next month to see if anything is holding us back however we wont have any answers until february next year when I see my specialist again. Fingers crossed one of these days my partner and I will be the mums we always dreamt we would be.

If anyone is interested in following our journey to becoming mummies feel free to follow us on Twitter@Rainbowbabyms