Montana Brown admitted that she was surprised when she struggled to conceive her first kid despite being in her twenties.
The former Love Island participant, who had baby Jude with her fiancé Mark O’Connor last month, revealed she assumed it would be simple to become pregnant when she first started trying.
But when it didn’t happen right away, Montana, 27, went to see a fertility specialist.
Mum-of-one Montana explained: ‘I thought “we’re young, this is going to be really easy”. For the first four months we’d used ovulation sticks, and then I’d do a pregnancy test and it’d be negative.
‘And I’d be like “oh my god that is so hurtful” and then you do that month after month.’
She added on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast: ‘Then I was kind over-thinking, is there something wrong with me, should I be getting checked?
‘Naturally, I sent Mark off to the clinic, I said “there’s something wrong with your sperm! You need to get it checked out, it’s not me!”
‘But, actually, we both went to the clinic and everything was fine.’
The TV personality continued: ‘So, Mark loves going in the sauna and also he’s an avid cycler, two things which are not good for sperm, which I did not know.
‘I also found out I had no oestrogen and no testosterone. It kind of left me a bit like, “Oh, I can be young, fit and healthy, and still really, really struggle to conceive”.’
Even when Montana did get pregnant, she was certain her symptoms, which included fatigue, nausea, and hot sweats, were the consequence of food poisoning.
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However, Montana’s partner Mark was certain she was pregnant.
‘I said, “Mark, please, come on, we had sex that one time”,’ Montana quipped.
But, lo and behold, Montana was on her way to becoming a mother.
Montana gave birth to her baby son last month after announcing her pregnancy in December.
‘Welcome to the world Jude Isaiah O’Connor,’ Montana wrote in a post announcing the tot’s arrival.
‘We’re so smitten with you little man.’
Since then, the actress has been documenting her motherhood journey on social media, and it’s safe to say she’s nailed it.
Source My Celebrity Life.