Laura Gallagher

The United Kingdom

Laura Gallagher is a children’s author and singing teacher from the UK. Following the birth of her miracle baby via IVF in 2018 – from the one viable embryo – she decided to create a story that allowed other families to talk about and celebrate the many different ways that babies arrive into the world. Her book for pre-school children ’Robo-Babies’ was created in consultation with a focus group of 50 families that have experienced fertility issues or taken a different route to becoming parents including IVF, surrogacy, adoption or donation, to ensure an accurate and sensitive representation of all family types.Laura wants to break the taboo around infertility and baby loss, something she has sadly also experienced, and wants to empower children and families to open up the conversation and language used around the journeys to making a family.