How we met: ‘I was trying to have a baby alone when we matched on a dating app’

Emmy was on en route to Athens to try artificial insemination when she started chatting to Andy. Now they have a child together

After turning 30 in 2018, Emmy made the life-changing decision to have a baby alone. I had always really wanted children," she says. But when I did a fertility MOT, I discovered I had low egg reserves." Single, and reluctant to wait for a suitable partner to come along, she began the process of IVF. I naively thought it would work, but I had a couple of miscarriages in the early stages."

In February 2020, she travelled to Athens to try artificial insemination by a donor. I've lived and worked in Greece and loved it. It was cheaper and I had friends to stay with," she says. Before she landed, she matched on a dating app with a man from Liverpool called Andy, and they began to chat. I'd been single for about four years and was quite happy in my own world," he says. But I was open to meeting someone and I found Emmy really engaging."