I had to endure various comments over the weekend. When meeting a whole bunch of strange people, I kept getting the usual questions - are you married? yes. How long? nearly nine years. Do you have children? no. You've waited a long time!

We told none of these people that we were TTC, and that later that day I was to have my first injection of FSH for our first IVF cycle, but I just found it so incredibly rude! You never know what someone else is facing, or is struggling with, so those questions are just plain downright insensitive and offensive!

I guess it just goes to show that people take fertility for granted. The fact that we don't have children was always put down to our choice, a decision we had made to not have them. I think that even if we weren't trying, those questions and comments would have driven me nuts, as it was, it was very hard not to collapse into floods of tears or jump into fits of rage and physical violence.

BW