West Lothian couple share story of struggle to become parents to encourage more sperm donors

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A West Lothian couple have shared their story of how they struggled to become parents to encourage more men to become sperm donors.Laura and Stacey McCabe tried for over a year to become pregnant but conceived son Mason thanks to having IVF alongside a sperm donation.Laura ( 39) and Stacey (37), from Linlithgow want to encourage potential donors to consider egg or sperm donation.Operations manager Laura said: “Mason is the most beautiful little guy.

Even when he was a baby, he was such a happy child and was always smiling. He’s added so much to our lives and to the lives of our families - everyone wants to see him all the time.”Before getting pregnant, Laura and Stacey had six rounds of unsuccessful donor sperm intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment, throughout 2021.IUI is a fertility treatment which gives sperm a chance at fertilising an egg.Laura continued: “I was getting worried that time was against us but we tried to remain as positive as possible.“The staff at the Edinburgh Fertility Centre were brilliant at supporting us.

Although it was really disappointing and I felt like my body was letting me down, Stacey and I always treated ourselves after an unsuccessful treatment.“It really made us stronger together.”After unsuccessful IUI, the couple decided to move to IVF using donor sperm.

Two months later, Laura and Stacey got a call from the Edinburgh Fertility Centre to say that they were pregnant.Stacey, a sales director, said: “We were both shaking when the clinic phoned us and we were absolutely overjoyed when we heard Laura was pregnant.