One woman in the United Kingdom knows that when her son was born, her impossible dream became a reality.
Wendy Lewis never believed she would become a mother, according to the mirror.co.uk. She says her son James is the proof that miracles do happen and impossible dreams become reality.
Diagnosed with polycystic ovaries, she “struggled to conceive naturally, and, at 49, she was sure she’d be too old for IVF treatment,” the mirror.co.uk said.
When she did become pregnant in 2017, the mirror.co.uk said that she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and her “baby James was born dangerously early.”
Wendy, 51, and her husband celebrated Christmas, 2018, with the “healthy miracle baby she had always hoped for,” the article said. It was their “first Christmas at home as a family – something that I only dared dream about,” she said.
“James really was the best Christmas present we could have asked for. For so long, I truly believed I would never become a mum – so to hold James in my arms was the most incredible feeling. He really is the proof that miracles do happen,” she said in the article.
Trying for a baby
The paper stated that Wendy and her husband, Andrew, 50, “started trying for a baby after their wedding in 2013, a year after they met through an online dating agency.”
Like most couples, they wanted to start a family as soon as possible, the paper said, but Wendy “was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries a year after their wedding.” The doctors said it would be very difficult for her to become pregnant naturally.
“They considered adoption, but decided they wanted to find a way of having a baby of their own.” the mirror.co.uk said.
Then Wendy learned that the NHS only funds IVF treatment for women aged 42 and under, according to the story.
By then, Wendy “thought all of my changes of becoming a mum had ended,” she told the paper. “I almost resigned myself that it was over.”
The article said that “the couple found CARE fertility in Nottingham, and arranged to see a consultant.” The consultant told Wendy she would be “eligible for treatment until she was 53 using donor eggs.”
“We were told there was a 60% of the first attempt being successful, which we were very optimistic about,” she told the paper. “I just thought if it’s meant to be, it will happen.”
On Father’s Day, 2017, Wendy learned she was having a baby and “cried and cried in disbelief and amazement as Andrew and I hugged one another,” the article said.
The mirror.co.uk said that “although the pregnancy went well initially, the 20-week scan revealed the couple’s unborn baby wasn’t growing at the rate doctors would have hoped for.”
Then Wendy was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia four weeks later and was told “their baby may not be receiving sufficient fluids.”
In the hospital
At 29 weeks into the pregnancy, she was rushed to “theatre for an emergency Cesarean section,” the paper said. Her son was born, “weighing a tiny 1 pound, 13 ounces and needed urgent medical attention.” She couldn’t even hold her newborn son, the paper said.
“I was so worried after everything we had all been through that James wouldn’t make it,” she said.
The article said James was rushed to the neo-natal department where he was placed on a ventilator. When he was one-day-old, Wendy got to hold her son for the first time.
Her impossible dream became a reality
According to the article, “when James was eight weeks old – a fortnight before his actual due date – Wendy and Andrew were finally able to take him home.”
In December, 2018, the paper said, James, “who is now 15 pounds and still only on age six month clothes,” spent his first Christmas day at home with his family.
“It may have taken for me to reach 51 for me to spend my first Christmas at home as a mum,” but it was “worth every second of the wait,” Wendy said, overjoyed that her impossible dream became a reality.
To see pictures of James and his mum, click here.
