Single Mum, 50, Gives Birth To Twins After Several Failed Attempts At Fertility Treatments

Meet 50-year-old civil servant who spent thousands of pounds on fertility treatment, made trips to a clinic in Spain and spent three years trying to fall pregnant with donor eggs and sperm which at the end of the day resulted to two happy, and occasionally boisterous, nine-month-old boys.

Diana Williams said: “I’m enjoying watching them start to walk and crawl. There is the tiring bit where I’m trying to keep up with the two of them.

“They crawl around and you think, ‘how did they get there?’ It’s still nice though.”

Diana lived in Smethwick and then Dudley before moving to London in her 30s after a promotion. It wasn’t until a career break on a voluntary project in Ethiopia and Kenya – where she saw mothers carrying their children round on their backs all day – that she found her maternal instincts.

She said: “Although I had relationships there wasn’t anyone who was going to get married and have children. That’s why when I was 44 I decided it was now or never and to do it on my own. I could have just left it and waited to meet someone but the way I saw it I might meet someone later but I couldn’t keep my body-clock going later.

“I knew it was the last chance I had, and I didn’t want to hit 50 without having tried.”

Diana first went to a London fertility clinic, where she was told her eggs were not viable.

Matters were complicated further because she was single and also needed a sperm donor.

Diana wanted the donor to match her Jamaican background, and with UK donors from ethnic backgrounds in short supply, it all equalled a lengthy wait.

Undeterred, she had a fibroid removed, lost weight and joined support networks including the Donor Conception Network. In 2010, at the age of 46, she met a team from IVI Fertility Clinic, an international treatment centre based in Spain, at a fertility industry trade show.

Having discovered that it had a large bank of eggs and sperm from a wide range of anonymous donors, the prospective mother travelled to Madrid to begin the process.

The first attempts with eggs from the same donor were unsuccessful and she took a year out to volunteer for the 2012 London Olympics. The following year, and with a different donor, she was tentatively excited to discover that she was not only pregnant but having twins.

The pregnancy came a year before the self-imposed cut-off point of her 50th birthday.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk