<p>"Mark and I had spent more than 50,000 pounds on treatments and we'd both taken second jobs to pay for them. All the heartbreak had made me profoundly depressed. At times, I wanted to die. The odds were so stacked against us," Mandy said.<br /><br />In the five years she and her husband Mark had been trying to conceive, Mandy tried spiritual healing, feng shui, acupuncture, organic diets and a host of herbal remedies.<br /><br />Then, in a last attempt, Mandy consulted a fertility astrologer, the Daily Mail reports. And now the couple is proud parents of eight-month-old Violet. And Mandy has no doubt it was astro-fertility that has helped to fulfil her dream of becoming a mother. <br /><br />"Though I was sceptical, I was also desperate," says Mandy. "I don't even read my horoscope and Mark thought it was a complete waste of money. But when you want a baby as badly as I did, you will consider anything.<br /><br />"Since Violet was born I feel intoxicated with happiness. I still can't quite believe she's here. All of my scepticism has melted away."<br /><br />Astro-fertility works on the assumption that there are only two or three times a year when a woman can become pregnant and go on to successfully give birth.<br /><br />Those windows are particular to each woman based on her and her partner's time and place of birth and the alignment of planets at those moments.<br /><br />It is only when the position of those planets is replicated that a woman can conceive.<br />"It sounds like nonsense. But we'd exhausted all other options so I thought 'Why not',” says Mandy, a secondary school teacher.</p>
<p>"Mark and I had spent more than 50,000 pounds on treatments and we'd both taken second jobs to pay for them. All the heartbreak had made me profoundly depressed. At times, I wanted to die. The odds were so stacked against us," Mandy said.<br /><br />In the five years she and her husband Mark had been trying to conceive, Mandy tried spiritual healing, feng shui, acupuncture, organic diets and a host of herbal remedies.<br /><br />Then, in a last attempt, Mandy consulted a fertility astrologer, the Daily Mail reports. And now the couple is proud parents of eight-month-old Violet. And Mandy has no doubt it was astro-fertility that has helped to fulfil her dream of becoming a mother. <br /><br />"Though I was sceptical, I was also desperate," says Mandy. "I don't even read my horoscope and Mark thought it was a complete waste of money. But when you want a baby as badly as I did, you will consider anything.<br /><br />"Since Violet was born I feel intoxicated with happiness. I still can't quite believe she's here. All of my scepticism has melted away."<br /><br />Astro-fertility works on the assumption that there are only two or three times a year when a woman can become pregnant and go on to successfully give birth.<br /><br />Those windows are particular to each woman based on her and her partner's time and place of birth and the alignment of planets at those moments.<br /><br />It is only when the position of those planets is replicated that a woman can conceive.<br />"It sounds like nonsense. But we'd exhausted all other options so I thought 'Why not',” says Mandy, a secondary school teacher.</p>