“I felt that aching to be a mum, which, in my mind, was something totally separate to being married.”
Sometimes, the desire to be a mother doesn’t match up with the desire to be coupled and for Carrie Cooper-Moore this realisation came in her mid-30s.
Today, Cooper-Moore has two children: three-year-old Jonathan and six-month-old Aisling. Both are sperm donor children, conceived via IVF, and they are being raised by Cooper-Moore and her mother, who lives with them. Cooper-Moore is part of a growing trend of women who are choosing to become solo mothers, but national data is hard to come by. Data from the
“I started the IVF journey when I was 38 years old and hadn’t had luck meeting anyone,” Jones says. “At the time, I was still going on dates and meeting some lovely men, but by that age these men had families already and didn’t want more kids”.
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