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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Lisa Salmon

How to get through Mother’s Day if you have fertility issues

Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate our wonderful mothers – but it can also be a source of pain for the women who long to be mothers and can’t.

Fertility Network UK (FNUK) estimates around one in six couples in the UK will experience difficulties conceiving, for a multitude of reasons ranging from  medical conditions affecting one or both partners, to unexplained infertility. And even women who do manage to get pregnant may not end up becoming a mother because of problems including recurrent miscarriages.

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