Lynsey Bleakly had been trying to conceive for two years when, aged 39 and aware she was running out of time, she visited an acupuncturist who specialised in treating fertility problems.
‘The longer it didn’t happen, the more anxious I became,’ says Lynsey, now 47, who tearfully told the £90-an-hour therapist her story. But the acupuncturist seemed unperturbed by Lynsey’s history. ‘She said she’d got lots of women pregnant, and it would be me next.’
It was a bold claim.