Hi all,

This is my first post to this forum I guess my situation is a bit complicated. I try and give the shorten version. Previously I had a 5 year marriage. During that marriage I was trying to conceive actively for approximately 2 years.

I found the process of trying to conceive during that marriage very frustrating and upsetting. I remember being very naive, I believed that pretty much as soon as I stopped taking contraception I would fall pregnant...I didn't. My (now ex) husband didn't want to go to a fertility specialist believing that it would just eventually happen. The marriage ended in 2001.

Since then I have been in one other major relationship, for the best part of 12 months in that relationship I did not use any contraception and did not fall pregnant.

I have been desperate for many years now to have a baby. I am not currently in a relationship and nor do I plan to be in one anytime soon. I have made the decision that I feel financially and emotionally secure enough to look at conceiving a child as a sole parent. I realise that the notion of intentionally becoming a sole parent may be somewhat controversial, but I am unswayed by other opinions on the matter.

I began looking at fertility clinics in Sydney to first examine why I have been unable to conceive and then secondly to hopefully attempt donor insemination. I was quite suprised to discover that most of the large ivf/fertility clinics in Sydney do not seem to currently have any donors.

One of the clinics mentioned that one of the reasons that there are so few donors may be due to proposed legislation in NSW. I was wondering if anyone knew what it is about the legislation that has caused such a shortage? Or if the legislation will affect the provision of AC for single women?

I did find a clinic that said that they do have donors and I have made an appointment in the coming week to go and see a doctor there. I am totally new to fertility treatment and AC. I'm really hoping that I am not totally infertile.