Iknow the pain and heartbreak when fertility treatment fails, and I know how to support couples through it

Clare Mansfield’s journey to pregnancy was a rocky one, but eventually she and her husband welcomed three girls into their lives – twins by donor egg IVF followed by a daughter via a wonderful surprise pregnancy four years later. Now she is on a mission to help others

Clare Mansfield at her home in Carlow with her three girls, Lily (8), Isabella (4) and Zoe (8). Photo: Dylan Vaughan

Clare Mansfield and Shane McCarthy discussed having children on their first date, roughly fifteen years ago. “He was 34, I was 33, so it was a bit on the later side, I suppose, at that stage,” Clare says now.

The conversation went in that direction “by accident,” she says. “My sister had just found out

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