A family searching for a surrogate have made their plight public on social media in a bid have a second child to complete their family.
In their 16 years of marriage, Havelock North couple Chris and Sharon Owen have always known they wanted a family and battled through a journey of unexplained infertility, miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and in vitro fertilisation.
After trying to conceive for 10 years the couple finally had a daughter, Iola, through IVF in 2012, however she died unexpectedly aged 20 months.
They were eventually directed along the surrogacy path and in May 2015 a surrogate bore them their son, Ianto, now 2.
However, Ms Owen said she's now "fighting" to have a second child so Ianto has a sibling, going as far as setting up a public Facebook page to reach more people.