In the years that followed, IVF specialists transferred a total of 38 embryos from laboratory to womb until, finally, in July 1999, the team at Sydney IVF helped us conceive Michael and Chloe Whelan, who were born well and healthy, and screaming, on March 30. We were lucky. We could afford it. We met dozens of couples who couldn't. We could not understand why IVF was different from other medical procedures.
Infertility is an illness.
It was the result of an infection. But it didn't work like that. The Government would support us only up to a point, after which we had to foot the bill ourselves. Now, of course, we think the twins are priceless. Everybody says that the euphoria will wear off, but we've never been happier.