Not even a year. They’d only met the previous NYE if I recall. And with IVF, even going privately immediately you’d be looking at around 3 months end to end as they would need to do some tests first, and then you need to down reg your hormone over a cycle, up reg them again etc, it’s not a quick process.
So she’s effectively started IVF with someone she’s only been with 6-9 months, if that. I can only imagine she’s lied to the clinic about length of relationship and how long they’d been trying as it would be extremely unethical for a clinic to just start IVF without carrying out the various required tests re infertility first (sperm count, egg reserve, check of your tubes, etc) because that usually determines the type of treatment they’d recommend.
I only know because I went private and we went in the September for initial consultation, then had all the tests over the course of a couple of months, (for which nothing was wrong with either of us, other than having been trying for 3 years at that point, so that is just diagnosed as “unexplained infertility) and then we started IVF in the January, and did a transfer in the March. Granted we had the opportunity to start the IVF in the December but decided against it as we thought we’d enjoy Christmas first. But as a private patient that was nearly 5 months end to end.