Birth stories: 'It had taken three goes to get Evelyn and this was our last chance'

Birth stories:"It had taken three goes to get Evelyn and this was our last chance"Fran, 38, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013. She and her husband Mark now have two girls, Evelyn and Grace who they had via an independent surrogate. Here

I had some scans quite quickly afterwards, and was fortunately told that they could operate, and then I was basically given different options. One of them was a radical hysterectomy with removal of lymph nodes, and there was another option to do less surgery, which would have meant that I could still carry but the chances of reoccurrence were higher.

When I started to look into surrogacy, there wasn't an awful lot of information out there. At the hospital my first consultant had been very much pro adoption and kept talking to me about how he’d treated cancer patients who’d gone on to successfully adopt, he didn't know anyone who’d used a surrogate. None of the nurses knew anyone who'd gone through surrogacy. So everyone was like, ‘Oh, it's possible’, but there wasn't a lot of information.

There were all these stories of people introducing themselves and explaining what happened. For the first time, it all felt like it might actually happen. I remember like Mark coming home and I couldn't shut up about all these stories. He was sort of like, you know, ‘calm down a little bit’, again, he didn't want us to get too excited. But I just remember thinking for the first time, this might actually happen and getting quite excited about that.

Then we decided to meet with the husbands as well, so we met up for lunch in a Toby Carvery. That was really great - Mark and Ian got on really well too in the end, we were like, right, are we ready to make this official and we decided then and there.I remember Ian turned to Mark and just went ‘we're gonna do this for you, mate. We're gonna do this.’ It just felt like such a team experience. Like everyone was rooting for us.

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