‘I won my baby in a prize draw’ says woman who bagged IVF treatment worth over £10,000 after 10 years of failed pregnancies
Bonny tot Mya-Rose was born after her desperate parents entered local hospital ballot
A WOMAN who suffered ten years of heartbreaking pregnancy attempts finally got her dream – after she “won” her daughter in a prize draw.
Rose Herft, now 31, had been through two ectopic pregnancies and two failed rounds of IVF before winning a round of treatment worth £10,500 from a private fertility clinic.
After a decade of heartbreak, Rose fell pregnant after the IVF treatment at Lister Fertility, Chelsea Bridge, and gave birth to 5lbs 2oz Mya-Rose in June 2014.
Rose said: “Having Mya-Rose has been such a blessing to our family, we really do feel lucky to have her.
“The fact that we won the treatment in the prize draw was amazing - I never thought we’d actually win.”
Rose, from Cricklewood in North West London, first fell pregnant in 2003 when she was just 18, but at 8 weeks she was told that the pregnancy was ectopic, and her fallopian tube was removed.
A year and a half later, she suffered a second ectopic pregnancy and had her other fallopian tube removed.
When she and her partner Kobby Manyo-Plange, 31, started trying for children again in their twenties, she did an ‘egg swap’ where she donated eggs to a woman who couldn’t have children in return for IVF treatment.
However, neither she nor the other woman fell pregnant.
Another round of IVF at Guy’s Hospital, London, was also unsuccessful.
Kobby and Rose were about to give up when they entered a prize draw for free fertility treatment from the Lister Fertility Clinic in Chelsea Bridge.
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Rose was amazed to receive a call to say she was one of 24 lucky women who’d won the treatment.
In March 2013, ten years after her first pregnancy, she started treatment and discovered she had an immune disorder caused by stress which meant her body attacked her embryos thinking they were an infection.
She was put on a drip to dampen her immune system, and thankfully fell pregnant during her only free round of IVF.
In June 2014, Mya-Rose was born via planned C-section at a tiny but perfect 5lbs 2oz.
Rose said: “We feel so blessed to have Mya-Rose, she’s perfect.
“Sadly my Dad died a few months before she was born, but I like to think he was helping in some way. It seems like fate.”
