Amanda Gudz’s amazing true life story was printed over two pages of the DAILY MIRROR newspaper this week. 
After spending £30,000 on 15 failed IVF attempts, Amanda Gudz had given up thoughts of having a baby. But she hadn’t counted on the selfless generosity of her sisters. For Samantha offered to be a surrogate. Using an egg from Amanda and sperm from Amanda’s husband Darren, the couple were thrilled when having implanted the embryo into Samantha’s uterus, she got pregnant. And this gave Amanda daughter Esme, now two.
Esme totally fulfilled Amanda but she and Darren had remaining embryos still frozen in storage. And then the hospital wrote to them asking what to do with the embryos. The choices are to continue storing them at a cost, donate them to another couple, allow them to perish or give them to research. There was of course one other option – Amanda and Darren could give the embryos the chance of life themselves.
So that is what they did. This time sister Ellen wrote out a cheque to fund the IVF. Only two embryos survived the thawing process and were good enough to implant into Amanda’s uterus. She really thought after so many years it would never work. But it did – against all the odds Amanda got pregnant and she has now had baby Thea. Incredibly, although born two years apart, the girls are twins.
When she was having Thea, sister Michelle stepped in to look after Esme.
Amanda told me: “I feel so lucky. But I wouldn’t have had my children if it weren’t for my sisters and I will be eternally grateful to them. The article was spot on. It reads great and I am so very pleased. Thank you so much.”
Interestingly the story about Amanda’s sister being a surrogate had already appeared in the press two years ago. But I was able to place this update again – and Amanda now has another deal with a leading women’s weekly magazine.
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