Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett.<\/a><\/p>\n“I don’t think I understood what I was saying then but I always knew this was something I was going to do for Georgia.”<\/p>\n
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Georgia Barrington<\/p>\n
Georgia and Daisy (right) have been best friends since childhood and grew up together <\/p>\n
More than a decade later, Daisy followed through on that promise and in 2023 the two women began the IVF process.<\/p>\n
Georgia had trained as a midwife, immersing herself in the world she feared she could never be part of. <\/p>\n
“I was asked once whether this was the right career for me,” she says. “But actually, it helped me heal and deep down I knew I’d have a child one way or another.” <\/p>\n
Years later, Daisy had her first child \u2013 with Georgia as her midwife – and becoming a mum herself strengthened her conviction to fulfil her promise.<\/p>\n
“The love I felt for my child was amazing and I thought everyone should be able to have that feeling,” she says. <\/p>\n
She admits she was a “bit na\u00efve” at the beginning as she had a straightforward pregnancy with her daughter and so “assumed everything would go smoothly again”.<\/p>\n
‘Hope dropped away’<\/p>\n
She became pregnant with the first embryo and everything seemed to be progressing normally and both women allowed themselves to believe the future they’d imagined was finally happening. But a scan at seven weeks revealed an empty womb.<\/p>\n
Georgia remembers the moment the nurse said she couldn’t see anything on the scan.<\/p>\n
“I had this sinking feeling, and all hope just dropped away,” she says.<\/p>\n
A week later it was confirmed that the embryo hadn’t become a baby.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was all my fault,” admits Daisy who found the grief overwhelming, feeling she had let her friend down, while Georgia struggled with the realisation that even their most promising attempt hadn’t succeeded.<\/p>\n
Still, they tried again and on the second time, something felt different as Daisy says: “When I found out I was pregnant again, I thought the world cannot be this cruel twice.”<\/p>\n
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Georgia Barrington<\/p>\n
Daisy (right) says she always knew she was going to carry Georgia’s baby <\/p>\n
Six weeks in, the pair sat in a hospital room holding their breath as a tiny heartbeat appeared on the screen, but later that day, Daisy began to bleed heavily.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was happening all over again and I was terrified,” she says.<\/p>\n
She bled for six hours and was convinced she had miscarried but when doctors checked, the heartbeat was still there and the pregnancy continued to full term.<\/p>\n
Daisy went into labour slightly earlier than expected and a few months ago gave birth to a baby girl.<\/p>\n
Georgia was so overwhelmed in the moment she “forgot to check the sex of the baby”.<\/p>\n
“As soon as I saw the baby’s head, I just lost it and we were all crying.”<\/p>\n
She says she still struggles to believe she really has a child and wishes she could “take this moment and hand it to my 15-year-old self, sitting in that GP surgery”.<\/p>\n
As Georgia talks of how “lucky and grateful” she feels, Daisy says she always knew she would help her best friend out however she could. <\/p>\n
“We have this bond that no one will ever have with their friends because we’ve been through something so personal.”<\/p>\n
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Georgia Barrington<\/p>\n