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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Paige Oldfield

'I didn't want to keep waiting for the one so I had a sperm donor baby at 38'

A new mum who didn't want to keep waiting for Mr Right has welcomed a sperm donor baby.

Kate McElroy, 39, had always wanted to be a mum and decided if she was still single by her 38th birthday she would go it alone.

She contacted Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) to find out about trying and have a baby via sperm donor. She underwent her first round of intrauterine insemination (IUI) - where sperm is injected directly into the womb - to conceive in February 2022 and fell pregnant on her fourth round.

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