When I was doing my book tour last year, one of the interviews I did was with the breakfast team at Triple M in Brisbane. That’s where I met Emily Jade O’Keefe. She told me she’d read my book, hangs out often on Mamamia and had a blog of her own. Recently, she got in contact again and in the course of our chats, I decided she had a story well worth sharing. Poignant, sad and often hilarious, I thought it might be interesting to share the very big journey she’s on at the moment, one that will no doubt resonate with many of us and even if it doesn’t, is a cracker read.

Born into a family of Breeders, the eldest of 5 siblings, and one of 17 cousins, she looked forward to starting a family when she married her younger handsome husband Gerard, who also boasted a big family being one of four siblings and over 30 cousins. So it came as a bit of a surprise to the both of them when 12 months ago they decided to fall pregnant and found they just couldn’t.

Proving that while you can have a great job, great husband, great friends, family and life…you can’t always have it all.

Instead of keeping her infertility to herself, she started to open up about her struggle for a baby on the air and through her writing. At first many friends, family and listeners told her she probably should not share her journey, infertility being a touchy and private subject but she decided to continue to tell her story as she found many many more women just like her in the midst of a secret devastating struggle. It is with this in mind that we’ve decided to include Emily’s journey on Mamamia.

Positive that this will be a happy ending, she will continue to share her baby making tactics and stories until the stork finally arrives..

And yes…she has tried having sex, just in case you were wondering.

Emily writes…..

PART ONE