A woman has given birth after spending £25 on her first attempt to artificially inseminate herself with donor sperm in the comfort of her home.
Bailey Ennis, 24, decided to go it alone and have a baby via sperm donor in September 2021 because she was desperate to be a mum and didn’t have a desire to be in a relationship.
She had always wanted to have a child and found an experienced donor online who lived nearby and purchased an artificial insemination kit for £25.
She fell pregnant in October 2021 and welcomed a little boy, named Lorenzo, on 2nd July 2022 at 6.54pm weighing 5lbs 2oz.
SWNS / Bailey Ennis
Bailey Ennis, 24, decided to go it alone and have a baby via sperm donor in September 2021 because she was desperate to be a mum and didn’t have a desire to be in a relationship.
She had always wanted to have a child and found an experienced donor online who lived nearby and purchased an artificial insemination kit for £25.
She fell pregnant in October 2021 and welcomed a little boy, named Lorenzo, on 2nd July 2022 at 6.54pm weighing 5lbs 2oz.
SWNS / Bailey Ennis
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00:00 There's not enough words to describe how it feels to look at your baby for the first time.
00:04 I'm Bailey-Rae Ennis. I'm a 24-year-old single woman and I got pregnant via sperm donation.
00:10 I decided last year in August that I wanted to be a mum by myself.
00:27 I had no kind of desire to be in a relationship and I thought this was the best option for me.
00:32 I'm better off being independent and so that's why I decided that it would be better to be by myself to do this.
00:39 I started looking on sperm donor websites. I made sure that I filtered my options down to
00:50 the healthiest person I could find and the person who lived closest to me.
00:55 My donor was a yoga teacher so he's like very fit and healthy which is something that I'd like to
01:01 another donor. It's like a normal online transaction you just check out and it gets delivered to you.
01:06 Baby is not allowed to know the donor until they're 18 or most of the time that's the scenario.
01:11 So I wanted him to have the option to meet the donor in the future.
01:15 The price of the insemination kit was £24.99 and obviously I paid delivery too.
01:20 I expected it maybe to take three cycles but it worked the first time which I was really really happy about.
01:33 I felt very lucky. I was over the moon. There's no words to describe how it feels when you find out you're pregnant.
01:42 Especially if you planned it as well and it's something that you've wanted for a really long time.
01:46 Knowing that I got to have Lorenzo and put all my love into him in no time it just feels great.
01:51 Pregnancy was great. There was a lot of anxiety which I think is normal when it comes to being pregnant.
01:59 It was the longest nine months of my life. I was in shock because obviously I'd just given birth
02:04 but I was extremely happy. There's not enough words to describe how it feels to look at your
02:11 baby for the first time. I was just totally in love and to this day I still I just stare at him
02:16 all the time. I can't stop.
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