Single nurse gives birth after funding IVF treatment with money from £1million family lottery win
A NURSE has given birth after funding IVF treatment with money from a £1million family lottery win.
Single mum Rebecca Brown, 39, who used a sperm donor, called baby Ethel “priceless” after she was born at the Nottingham hospital where she works.
Rebecca spent £12,000 of her £250,000 lottery share on the treatment.
Doctors told her to think about having kids after a smear test revealed abnormal cells that turned out to be pre-cancerous in her cervix.
Miss Brown, who works as an orthopaedic nurse at the Queen’s Medical Centre, said: “It’s been manic and full on, that’s for sure.
“When it happened, I sort of ended up on Saturday morning in a bit of a daze, because I couldn’t believe that she was my baby and I thought I was dreaming.
“I thought it was a dream I was going to wake up from. We had a bit of a moment, behind the curtain at the hospital.”
Miss Brown won her share of £1million on the National Lottery as part of a family syndicate in August 2016 with her 63-year-old mother Yvonne, her 64-year-old father David and her 37-year-old sister Julie.
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The lucky lottery winner contacted CARE Fertility in Nottingham for a one-to-one consultation after she decided she wanted to have a child.
Recalling the moment she knew the IVF treatment had been a success, Miss Brown said: “The first thing I did was I Facetimed my sister and said ‘morning Auntie Julie’ – and she went in to tell my mum and dad that it was a success.
“Then I cried a little bit – I never really thought that we’d get to this stage.”
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