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The toll of not being able to have children

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mental health. I am childless not by choice and a bit like having longstanding mental health problems it is another club that I never expected to be in.Like many people I have always dreamed of being a mother – I guess I first thought about it aged around  12 or 13 when I started babysitting in my local community and was told “You are a natural with kids” “You would make a great mother one day”.

It is also the same time I started struggling with my mental health, (depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts have plagued me on and off throughout my life).

I remember talking with my friends as a teenager about the statistic that one in five couples can't have children and having a sneaky feeling that would be me but shrugging it off.

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