When 32-year-old Katie McCarton and her engineer husband, Gary, 36, started trying for a baby in 2007, they were full of hope that they would soon have a family of their own.
Following five rounds of IVF by 2015, Katie said they feared parenthood had eluded them, adding: ‘It was a really hard time, we had got to the point where we were thinking about adoption.Their luck changed when Katie’s sister-in-law Lauren Byrne, 35, a bookkeeper, sent a heartfelt letter to a women’s magazine competition and won a free round of IVF for the couple.
‘By the time I got into hospital, I was five centimetres dilated. There was nothing medics could do to stop my birth and my twins were stillborn.Katie was overjoyed when she fell pregnant with her miracle twins in 2019 But not only did they win, they were also given a second free cycle and, at long last, became the family of four they had always dreamed of being.Margo, pictured left, and Kit, pictured right, are now 20 months old and happy and healthy
‘It was just surreal. I was sat on the playmat as everyone passed them around. No one had been able to see them in hospital, so everyone wanted to see them right away,’ said Katie.
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