BBC star welcomes 'Christmas miracle' baby after 10 failed rounds of IVF

BBC presenter and Sky News assistant editor Emily Deeker has welcomed a 'Christmas miracle' baby after several failed rounds of IVF. Emily and her partner Will Glennon have been on a 12-year fertility journey, welcoming their first child, a daughter named Olivia, three years ago.

Their little girl was born from the couple's second to last frozen embryo, giving them hope for another child. In October, their miracle baby, Harry, was born.

Emily shared: "When our daughter turned two we said to each other "We have got another embryo left sitting in the clinic in Bristol so let's try it. But we absolutely didn't think that it would end in a successful pregnancy and bring in the baby just because we had to do so many rounds of treatment to get our little girl.

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"If that 12th and final frozen embryo hadn't matured to become Harry, we would have been grateful just to have had our beautiful Olivia after such a long wait, but I was already 42 then so if we were going to try, time was running out."

Speaking about Harry's birth, she said it felt like it was 'meant to be'. She also expressed gratitude for the 'dedication and expertise' of the doctors at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine (BCRM), reports the Mirror.

Their daughter, Olivia, is 'besotted' with her new baby brother and keeps telling her parents that Harry is "my best friend".

Emily, who embarked on her journey to motherhood with fertility treatments in Bristol at the age of 30, opened up about the tough road she faced after several failed IVF attempts. She spoke of her initial optimism, saying: "At first you think that IVF is going to be the answer to your prayers and often I think what you don't realise when you start it is that it doesn't work for everybody," The couple had to temper their expectations over time, as she explained: "We learned somewhere along the journey not to get our hopes up and to manage our expectations - and we really trained ourselves to do that over the years. We were trying to have a family for 12 years in total and learned not to take anything for granted."

After the long wait, Emily gave birth to Olivia and, against all odds, fell pregnant with Harry, which left them astonished.

Delighted by their stroke of luck, she said: "When we found it had worked again and then we did find out before he was born that we were gonna have a little boy, all of our dreams came true to have a daughter and a son."

Now a mother of two, Emily revelled in her experience, stating: "It is lovely to be the mum of a little boy and a little girl [and] just feels like it was all worth it, all of the pain and the perseverance over the years paid off and we are overjoyed. We wanted our little girl to have a sibling - and now she won't leave him alone."