Victoria Stockwell always wanted to be a mother. She never dreamed of running her own company or travelling the world. Instead she simply saw a family in her future.
But after the Government halted IVF treatments due to coronavirus, her hopes of having children began to slip away. “This was possibly our last chance to have a baby – I’m heartbroken because all I want is to be a mum,” says the personal trainer.
Victoria, 36, has a diminished ovarian reserve, which means she has few eggs left in her ovaries and she’d pinned her hopes on her fourth cycle of IVF this month.
Victoria is one of thousands of women who have been hit by the closure of many IVF clinics in the UK and Europe due to the pandemic.