‘Doing it with no partner is easier’: the single women using fertility treatments

A growing number feel single parenthood is liberating and only a sense of shame' around it is holding women back

It was Covid that gave Amy, 45, the final push to have fertility treatment on her own. I had been thinking about it for a while, and then with Covid, I thought: I'm never gonna meet anybody.' And I didn't really want to be that woman who's like: Hey, we've been on one internet date. Let's have a baby!"

Amy struck lucky with her first embryo transfer and is now the mother of a three-year-old. I feel very blessed," she said.