Darragh McCullough: ‘After a decade of IVF cycles, miscarriages, hopes raised and dashed, we’re celebrating our first Christmas with baby Grace’

There are winters you brace yourself for, winters you endure, and then – every so often –there are winters that mark you for life. This year, standing in the yard outside our 200-year-old farmhouse with a nine-month-old baby burbling in my arms, I know which category this one falls into. It’s our first Christmas with Grace.