'This is not how it was supposed to happen' - IVF blogger finds out she's pregnant after husband's death

Clare Cullen

An Australian video blogger documenting the hardships of IVF and her difficulty to conceive has received the news she's waited seven years for - days after tragedy struck.

Kristy Kirchner's husband Royce was tragically killed in a car accident ten minutes away from their home, days before she confirmed the pregnancy. He was killed instantly when his car hit a tree.

"For 7yrs we wished for a baby. The wish came true but he was taken 5 days after the embryo transfer".

The Queensland couple had been saving, working "grueling 70 to 80hr weeks for two years straight to save up for IVF", which they "couldn't afford in 2011".

However, following their first round of IVF, Royce was "taken 5 days after the embryo transfer".

In a video posted two weeks after his death, Kirchner announced her pregnancy and revealed that she had considered suicide.

"I've just had a councillor leave because I'm not coping".

"My thought process was to get through the funeral and go to be with him. I even googled 'easy ways to suicide'".

The couple had cancelled Royce's life insurance shortly before his accident in order to pay for the IVF treatment, leaving Kirchner with a mortgage to pay and no job - having left it to focus on conceiving.

"I am left with a mortgage I can't afford, pregnant, and utterly depressed".

"My whole life as I knew it is gone".

Kirchner's friends and family raised over $16,000 to support her via a Fundraising page. Kirchner said it was "amazing" to raise "such a huge amount to help ease the situation I have been faced with".

Even the media are trying to help ease the burden, with Australian news show 'Current Affair' renovating the home she shared with Royce, which Kirchner hopes to be able to remain in.

“I will find a way because I want (the baby) to feel his or her daddy’s presence and there is no where in this world stronger than the home he had such big dreams for.”

Kirchner posted a poem on her YouTube channel for her husband, and posted "I miss you so much I feel like I'm dying".

The Kirchners were married in 2007 and tried unsuccessfully for two years before inquiring about IVF in 2011. They saved for three years before undergoing their first round in 2014. Kirsty suffers from Polycystic ovary syndrome while Royce was diagnosed with male factor infertility during the IVF process.