A mother’s courage knows no bounds.

Malaysia-born actress Sora Ma announced her pregnancy on Feb 10, but behind the happy news lies a story of her difficult journey to motherhood.

Through two Instagram (IG) reels posted on Tuesday (March 5), the 39-year-old revealed publicly for the first time that she had conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), a process she described as challenging.

“I am an IVF mum,” she declared at the beginning of the first reel.

She went on to share that she and her husband — who wed in October 2021 after dating for almost 10 years — had gone for a series of fertility checks between June and July last year. Her husband is not in showbiz.

Sora recounted: “The doctor told us that if we want to conceive naturally, there shouldn’t be a problem. But because I am already 39 years old and my husband is close to 50, they gave us some suggestions, which was to get medical help.”

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The doctor told them that women who undergo artificial insemination before the age of 40 can receive government subsidies, which Sora felt was a feasible idea and decided to go for it.