Tim Rankine knows it when he sees it: the tension that simmers between a couple as they sit uneasily in the waiting room of a fertility clinic. “They’re trying to survive,” he says. “But it’s the situation that’s making them frustrated.” Tim, 39, is speaking from experience. He and wife Celeste, 32, have been struggling with infertility for almost six years, a painful journey that has seen them endure five rounds of IVF, six miscarriages and more failed embryo transfers than most hearts could bear. That’s on top of the $80,000 so far drained from their savings. Tim and Celeste Rankine have been trying for six years to have a baby Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui As the couple, from Melbourne’s north-west, turns their focus to gestational surrogacy, they are feeling more positive now than they have in a long time. But they nevertheless feel that their lives have been standing […]