"I was an IVF miracle baby - born metres apart from my future wife"
A miracle IVF baby has tied the knot with a woman who was born metres away from him in the same hospital on the same day - 30 years later.
Ross Watson made headlines when he was born on August 21, 1994 - completely unaware his future wife was arriving into the world at around the same time.
Today (Wed) he celebrates his 30th birthday alongside wife Annika and his family, who believed the special occasion might not ever happen.
His mother Carol had previously been told she would never have children before Ross proved to be the lucky IVF embryo following fertility treatment.
Carol and husband Alan spent £8,000 on IVF treatment and Ross was considered a miracle baby, having been a frozen embryo for 14 months.
Ross Watson made headlines when he was born on August 21, 1994 - completely unaware his future wife was arriving into the world at around the same time.
Today (Wed) he celebrates his 30th birthday alongside wife Annika and his family, who believed the special occasion might not ever happen.
His mother Carol had previously been told she would never have children before Ross proved to be the lucky IVF embryo following fertility treatment.
Carol and husband Alan spent £8,000 on IVF treatment and Ross was considered a miracle baby, having been a frozen embryo for 14 months.
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00:0021st of August, back in 1994, Wordsley Hospital both on the same day, I think I was born around
00:081am, Annika around 3am we think, so I'm second born, my mum can't remember, yeah so I'm two
00:14hours-ish older, but yeah same day, same year, same hospital. Yeah IVF child, so I was actually
00:20on the front of the Express and Star back in 1994 when my parents were showing me off to the world
00:26on the front of the Express and Star, yeah an IVF baby. He was a month premature though,
00:31so I say that he's still my birthday, yeah, apparently, yeah, weren't due till September.
00:37So we actually met at college, at Howes End College, just a mutual friend, yeah kind of
00:43mutual friends, kind of just kind of knew of each other, knew we had the same birthday and then
00:51several years down the line kind of found our way back together I guess.
00:54Wolf Civic. Yeah, Wolf Civic, blast off if you know it, yeah over Christmas. We were getting a bit
01:02close a lot, we knew, you know how like at school and college you kind of know people that have the
01:06same birthday, it's kind of like a thing. Turning 18, we're both having parties and inviting our friends.
01:11Yeah but I think when, probably when we kind of got closer, we kind of worked out that it
01:17was the same hospital as well, which adds an extra layer of bizarreness I guess, but yeah.
01:22Being an IVF baby, obviously his parents are very excited, so there's videos and all sorts
01:27of that. We've watched them back to see whether I can spot my parents or anything in the background,
01:32you can't, they're obviously different rooms. Our parents don't know, don't know each other,
01:36we were born kind of at the same time, same hospital, but they don't know each other,
01:40but it was, yeah, hours apart. I'd love to find out how many people were born
01:45that day. Yeah, who else? Oh yeah, 21st of August, like night four,
01:49the hospital, get in touch. Yeah, married the back end of June in Skiathos in Greece,
01:55which was absolutely lovely. Best day of my life. Yeah, just the best day ever.
02:00Yeah, so embarking on life as a married couple now.