After trying unsuccessfully for a baby with husband Beau for several months, a concerned Jennifer Rothwell was eventually diagnosed with endometriosis. But although she worried that her dream of having children could now be in jeopardy, a determined Jennifer, 28, refused to give up.
It was late 2018 and the couple had been married for almost four years. They both had an engineering background and met as lab partners at the University of Missouri. They’d settled in St Louis, Missouri, where Beau worked as a project manager and Jennifer
as a chemical engineer.
But she really longed to start her own family. In the following months the couple continued to try to conceive. Rothwell would later say it took the “spark” out of their marriage as they tracked fertility cycles and took temperatures. Sex had started to feel like a chore.
