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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Amelia Hill

‘Doing it with no partner is easier’: the single women using fertility treatments

A pregnant woman in a stripy top holding her stomach
In 2022, 4,800 women without a partner had a fertility treatment to conceive in the UK. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

It was Covid that gave Amy, 45, the final push to have fertility treatment on her own. “I had been thinking about it for a while, and then with Covid, I thought: ‘I’m never gonna meet anybody.’ And I didn’t really want to be that woman who’s like: ‘Hey, we’ve been on one internet date. Let’s have a baby!”

Amy struck lucky with her first embryo transfer and is now the mother of a three-year-old. “I feel very blessed,” she said.

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