If you're a young, healthy woman, keeping your body in peak physical shape, why would you struggle to conceive? Well, it's complicated.
By that point, after two and a half years of trying, she had given up on having a baby, convinced it just wasn't to be for her and her partner.
Every woman who wants to have a baby knows the pressure that comes with that biological clock ticking. The path to conceiving can be an incredibly emotional journey for so many women, and the hurdles that invariably pop up along the way look so much steeper when you feel like you're the only one facing them.
Former Australian netballer Susan Pettitt and her husband Brad underwent IVF treatment in order to get pregnant.
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