Christmas has always been one of my most favourite special events in the year. Christmas for me is filled with memories of too much food, horrible Christmas-cracker paper hats and bad jokes, summer, sunshine, playing games after lunch and lying out in the sun with too-full bellies.

But trying to conceive (TTC) has put a new slant on it. 

Sadly one of the tough things about having trouble TTC can be that previously anticipated and enjoyable events during the year become hard to face...