Every day wit Mother’s Day.. n to help others
A MUM who “won” her IVF baby in a magazine competition feels so blessed that she is donating her two remaining frozen embryos so someone else can experience the joy of becoming a parent.
Della McGill, who will celebrate her first Mother’s Day tomorrow, gave birth to “miracle” baby Callum last July after winning a free round of IVF at the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine in an online contest. The 37-year-old and her Northern Irish partner Ryan Cunningham, 39, suffered the heartache of two ectopic pregnancies, years of fertility issues and a failed round of IVF before conceiving their son, who is now eight months.
Della’s bumpy and traumatic journey to motherhood has made her determined to help other couples who are struggling to have children.
She said: “For me, Mothering Sunday will be bitter sweet. Yes, I am over the moon to be a mum and tomorrow will be special because I will be spending it with the baby I thought I would never have.
“But I will also be thinking about my friends who are still struggling to have a child.
“I know what it is like trying to avoid the Facebook posts of others with their little ones on Mother’s Day knowing that it might never be you. It’s heartbreaking and I know how awful they will be feeling.
“That’s why we’ve decided to donate the two embryos we still have in the freezer so someone else can hopefully experience the happy ending we have been lucky to be given.”
Della, who grew up in Broxburn, West Lothian, added: “I had another ectopic pregnancy after Callum was born and had to have my remaining Fallopian tube removed, which means IVF would be our only hope of having another baby.
NHS which we had in June 2018. After that failed, we started gathering together the £15,000 we needed to go private then the competition came up.
“We both entered but it was Ryan who won. We nearly missed the email. I had been saying for days, ‘Check your emails’, and I saw a post by IVF Babble that said if the winners didn’t come forward, they would re-draw. I told him to search his emails using the search we found the email th ‘Congratulations, you’ve wo
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