Pick Me Up!

Our WOW baby

As the door swung open, I looked up to the man who had kindly held it for me and had a thunderbolt moment.

‘Thanks,’ I said with a smile, realising just how handsome he was.

It really was love at first sight, and the rest is history. My husband Mark, now 57, and I met when we were both working for the RAF and the connection was instant.

When we got together, Mark already had two daughters, May, now 28, and Evie, 26.

I wanted to be a mum, but there was only one problem – Mark had a vasectomy.

Following our doctor’s advice, in 2001, I started Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) – a type of fertility

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