According to data released by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on Tuesday, the number of single UK women having fertility treatment has more than trebled in the past decade. There were 4,800 women without a partner who had in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or donor insemination (DI) treatment in 2022, a 243% increase from the 1,400 single women who had fertility treatment in 2012.
Going through IVF as a single woman was simpler than she feared. I think doing it without a partner is probably a bit easier. I didn't have anybody to take the hormones out on or anything like that. I just got on with injecting myself in the stomach, she said.
I worried whether she'd mind not having a dad, she said. But now I think it's good not to have rushed into a relationship that might not have worked simply for that reason.
Amy even felt liberated by her ability to tell people she'd done it on her own. People would ask: Did he leave you did you leave him?' and it felt good to be able to say: Nope, I did it on my own!
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