Made with lots of love and clever science

Mini Meltdown is an IVF baby, made with lots of love and some very clever science, thanks to the very clever people at the fertility clinic.

Mr Meltdown and I had been trying for a baby for over a year when we were referred to the clinic. After various appointments and tests, it was concluded that there wasn’t any biological reason we couldn’t have a baby, it just wasn’t happening for us, so the next step was to try IVF.

We were incredibly lucky to be successful on the first attempt. We kept being told that it only takes one fertilised egg to make a baby but we knew the odds were still against us – we were given a 40% chance of success when the one mature fertilised egg we had was implanted in me, and we had no ‘spares’ to try again if it didn’t work. Remarkably though, the egg settled in and our baby began to grow.

The smoothness of the treatment was not replicated by the pregnancy though, which was anything but straightforward….