Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood

From choosing a donor to the surprise of twins - my complicated, anxious, joyful journey to becoming a motherThe hardest thing about having a baby alone isn’t the expense, the fear or the loneliness. It isn’t the process of getting pregnant, with its cycles of raised and dashed hopes, or the term “sperm donor”, with its unsettling connotations. It’s not even the queasy feeling that what you are doing sets you apart from other people and that the reason you are doing