TWIN-CREDIBLE!
Cancer survivor Ryan and partner Chris are expecting IVF twins ... thanks to surrogate mum who’s also in a same - sex relationship
TWO men have beaten incredible odds to become the first Scottish same-sex couple to be expectant dads by groundbreaking IVF treatment – and they are having twins.
Ryan Walker and Chris Watson are expecting the patter of tiny feet within the next six weeks after a Scots surrogate mother stepped in to help them realise their dream of becoming fathers.
Incredibly, the surrogate mum is also in a same-sex relationship and decided to help after she had a child using a donor.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have not just one baby coming but two,” Ryan, 32, told The Sunday Post last night. “It feels like we have won the Lottery.”
The engaged couple, from Falkirk, were turned down by several IVF clinics in Scotland for the cutting-edge fertility treatment because they are in a gay relationship.
They were eventually taken on by the GCRM clinic in Glasgow and, after two heart-breaking failed attempts at becoming dads, they were given the happy news in January that the surrogate mother was having a boy and a girl.
“It was disappointing that in this day and age some clinics declined us for treatment because we are a same-sex couple,” Chris, 28, said. “But we have always wanted to have a family and it has all come good in the end. It is a bonus we are now expecting a boy and a girl.”
The surrogate mum, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I am forever grateful to the sperm donor who helped me make a family, so I wanted to give something back.
“When I met Ryan and Chris we all clicked straight away.
“I quickly realised they were the couple I really wanted to help.
“They will be fantastic daddies. I know that we’ll all have a special family friendship for life.” Ryan and Chris faced a daunting uphill battle in their bid to start a family:
Five years ago, Ryan was diagnosed with cancer and had sperm frozen because the chemotherapy treatment would leave him infertile.
His mother, Veronica, battled cancer at the same time but sadly passed away.
A female friend who first agreed to be a surrogate decided not to go ahead two months into the IVF process, while a second surrogate also took cold feet and pulled out.
But their luck changed. And no money is changing hands – their current surrogate is doing it out of the goodness of her own heart, because she thinks they’ll make great dads.
The procedure was carried out by leading fertility expert Dr Marco Gaudoin, medical director at GCRM. Frozen eggs from an anonymous Scottish donor were fertilised with frozen sperm from one of the dads.
The eggs were then