Couple thank student midwife who gave birth to their daughter

A mates person spoken astir the joyousness a midwife has brought to their lives aft acting arsenic a surrogate for them.

Ami and Stuart Geddes, from Erskine successful Renfrewshire, mislaid their lad erstwhile helium was calved 15 weeks early, and were told Ami whitethorn not past different pregnancy.

After proceeding their story, midwife Jennifer Halliday offered to transportation their adjacent child.

The mates said the accomplishment of their girl Connie Geddes had completed their family.

Baby Connie was calved astatine the Royal Alexandra Maternity Hospital successful Paisley connected Friday 18 August, weighing 8lb 6oz.

Speaking connected BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Ami Geddes said: "Our embryos weren't the problem, it was my assemblage reacting to carrying children."

Ms Geddes was diagnosed with benignant 1 diabetes erstwhile she was a child, a information that puts women astatine overmuch higher hazard of processing pre-eclampsia during pregnancy.

The mates already person four-year-old Camdyn, who was besides calved early, astatine 29 weeks, which the mates present judge was besides owed to pre-eclampsia.

"We could marque truly lovely, beautiful, astonishing babies but we conscionable couldn't transportation them to term," Ami continued.

"We're shocked to the halfway that we've got these astonishing small radical successful our lives, and Jen has completed our family."

Dad Stuart described however helium had felt helpless arsenic helium watched his woman and babe lad conflict for their lives astatine the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital successful January 2021.

"I watched my woman astir suffer her life, and due to the fact that her humor unit got truthful utmost she astir went into a coma," helium said.

"My small lad had to beryllium delivered to fundamentally prevention Ami's life. He was excessively premature, unluckily his lungs weren't developed enough.

"His combat lasted 12 days and sadly they had to crook disconnected the beingness enactment machine."

The mates named their babe lad Clark, aft Superman's alias Clark Kent.

It was aft proceeding astir the couple's plight done a person that pupil midwife Jennifer, from Barrhead, stepped successful and offered to beryllium the couple's surrogate.

She said it was an casual determination to marque aft proceeding astir the emotion the mates had for their family.

She said: "I consciousness similar knowing the heartbreak of what they were going through, and however fortunate I person been to transportation my babies with nary complications, it truly conscionable did marque maine privation to assistance them and springiness them that joy.

"It felt similar immoderate usually gestation of mine, but I had that detachment successful my caput that this is their baby, it's their happiness I'm conscionable keeping this babe harmless for them."

Jennifer gave commencement to Connie conscionable arsenic she recovered retired she had passed her archetypal twelvemonth midwife exams. She volition present spell into her 2nd twelvemonth of studying.

The mates said that Jennifer had made each their dreams travel true, and they person made a person for life.