Alberta woman shares expensive, devastating fertility journey in hopes of helping others [Video]

It was a role Breanne Irving always knew she wanted to take on.

“For me the ‘kids’ thing has never been an ‘I’m not sure’ — it’s always been a definitive ‘heck yes,’” Irving said.

But the Calgary woman’s path to motherhood is proving to be more difficult than anticipated.

The 36-year-old palliative care doctor first thought about freezing her eggs when she was 30, but with her career just getting going and other personal life complications, decided it wasn’t the right time.

Nearly four years later, she began the process during a period of upheaval in her life, to make sure she’d have the opportunity to have a family when she was ready.

“I said no more waiting, no more timeline extensions,” Irving said.

“Something felt really, deeply wrong about that (waiting) and I don’t know if it was my ovaries going ‘mayday!’”

Irving’s fertility journey started with the …