18 July 2023 , 13:19
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Love Island’s Montana Brown has opened up on the “hurtful” fertility issues she suffered before falling pregnant with her son.
The 27-year-old and her fiance Mark O’Connor announced the arrival of Jude Isaiah in June, and during an episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, the former reality star candidly discussed the difficulties she faced getting pregnant.
Montana dreamed of having a big family after watching the 2003 movie Cheaper by the Dozen, and joked she “definitely wanted 12 kids” because she was an only child.
After meeting Mark in Barbados during the Covid-19 pandemic, the couple quickly moved in together, and then started trying for a baby.
Montana was over the moon to fall pregnant last year (Instagram/ @montanarosebrown1)
Baby Jude arrived last month (Instagram/ @montanarosebrown1)But Montana became increasingly worried after four months because she wasn’t pregnant, and she thought it would be “really easy” because they were young.
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“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 shared.
“Then I was kind overthinking, is there something wrong with me should I be getting checked,” Montana recalled.
The couple headed to a fertility clinic for tests, and the Love Island star was given startling news.
“I also found out I had no oestrogen and no testosterone. It kind left me a bit like, ‘Oh, I can be young fit and healthy and still really really struggle to conceive’,” she confessed.
New mum Montana was worried about her fertility (Instagram/ @montanarosebrown1)
She and fiance Mark went to a clinic for tests (Instagram/ @montanarosebrown1)Montana also revealed partner Mark loved going in the sauna and is an “avid cycler, two things which are not good for sperm, which I did not know.”
She told Giovanna about the moment she found out she was pregnant, but initially thought she was ill after suffering from sickness, hot sweats and stabbing pains.
“I was being sick, like every night. I said to Mark, ‘I've got food poisoning.’ And he was like, ‘I don't think you do.’ And he was like, ‘you're definitely pregnant,’” Montana laughed.
She then avoided taking a pregnancy test because she was “genuinely so convinced I was just ill,” but Mark was determined to find out the truth, and ordered a test to be delivered to their house via Deliveroo.
“I'll take the stupid pregnancy test just to shut you up,” she quipped, adding that she was “bit blase” about it.
“And then I just remember seeing it. And I was like, ‘Oh, my God,'” she smiled.
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