For some, motherhood happens easily, even accidentally. Others have to trek a more arduous route, employing all the advances of modern medicine to conceive. But it is only relatively recently that science has helped prevent women from experiencing the almost unthinkable outcome: losing a child.

Events specialist Sally Crinis lost her second daughter Lucia to a rare genetic disorder. Fearful that she would pass the same condition on to her next child, she utilised – and has since become an advocate for – genetic carrier testing.