Christmas with our two ‘wee miracles’
A Stirling police officer will celebrate Christmas with her ‘miracle’ identical twin daughters.
Nicola Durward was told she couldn’t conceive naturally as her fallopian tubes were blocked. She and husband Andrew, 41, underwent IVF to have first daughter Amber who’s now two.
But the couple were shocked when they conceived their identical twin girls, Chloe and Sophia, naturally.
The 32-year-old explained: “They really are our wee miracles as their older sister was conceived by IVF, so we thought we could never conceive naturally. Low and behold these two wee crackers came along in August and completed our family.”
Nicola and Andrew, who is also in the police, had been trying for a baby for about four years when tests revealed Nicola’s fallopian tubes were blocked.
They managed to have daughter Amber in August 2017 with IVF on the NHS.
“We still had eggs frozen so we booked an appointment for January this year to look into another round of IVF,” explained Nicola.
“I had bad postnatal depression after Amber so it was a bit of a task deciding whether to try again and consider the amount it puts your body through as well. And we didn’t know if it would work.
“But five days before the appointment I found out I was pregnant. It was a complete shock to the system. They got me in for an early scan because of the issues to make sure everything was in the right place.
“The midwife said, ‘Do you see the little heartbeat? And there’s the other heartbeat’. My husband went completely white as a sheet he was in complete shock.
“We were delighted. We couldn’t believe it had happened. It was a wee miracle for us.
“They’d previously done a test