Mum Welcomes Triplets After Three Years of Trying and Three IVF Attempts

A mum, Stephanie Brar, has shared her emotional journey of welcoming triplets after struggling to conceive for three years.

Stephanie revealed that during those difficult years, she often avoided looking at family photos her friends posted online or even watching others hold their babies, as it was too painful for her.

Determined to become a mother, she tried everything — from strict diets and fertility drugs to supplements for six months — but nothing seemed to work.

After three IVF attempts, Stephanie finally conceived and gave birth to triplets, fulfilling her long-awaited dream of motherhood.

She shared that she and her husband, who got married in early 2015 when she was just 24, had always hoped to start a family right away, but the journey turned out to be more challenging than expected.

She said: “When someone asked me what day it was, I was more likely to say, ‘cycle day 12’ than ‘Tuesday’,”

“People who knew that we were struggling to conceive told us to ‘just relax and it will happen’.

“This made me feel like it was my fault, that I was the reason it wasn’t working.

“Sherry longed to be a father so he could have that father/son bond that he’d missed out on.

“Every day, we were reminded of what we were missing.

“Seeing other women with their hands resting on their pregnancy bumps.

“Seeing babies and toddlers in the supermarket aisles.

“Spending time with the children of friends.

“I longed to push my own baby in a pram; to shop in the baby section of stores, rather than run past them, aching inside

“In the end, it all became too much.

“I couldn’t bear to see all the happy baby and family pictures everyone was posting, so I deactivated my social media accounts.

“I gave my excuses for missing friends’ baby showers and children’s birthday parties.

“It was just too painful.”

“Normally in life, the harder you try, the better the outcome.

“But with conception, no matter what we tried, I always got the same negative result.

“I was devastated every time I got my period.

“I felt I had failed, like we were being punished.

“I felt embarrassed, ashamed, and so lonely.”

Three years later, she and her husband sought help at Care Fertility in Birmingham, where doctors diagnosed her with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) — a hormonal condition that disrupts ovulation.

In her case, her cycles sometimes stretched up to 50 days instead of the usual 28, making it nearly impossible to predict fertile windows. After consultations, the couple decided the best course of action was egg collection to preserve as many eggs as possible, followed by IVF.

Their first egg collection in 2018 proved successful, giving them four viable embryos and a renewed sense of hope.

She added: “I’m so grateful that the first transfer worked and I had a smooth pregnancy with our first baby boy, George, who was born in 2019.

“IVF and science and the magic of all that did give me the family we had been longing for.”

After finding“I just felt far too lucky.”

A few years later, after discovering one of their two remaining frozen embryos hadn’t survived the thaw, a third transfer gave them their little girl, Rosie.

Stephanie said: “It felt like a dream come true, honestly, because I already had my two amazing boys.

“Now I’ve got my triplets, born apart, but from the same egg collection.”

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