For many couples, having a baby usually comes after at least going on the first date, but this unique couple had a very unusual way of getting to ‘happily ever after’…
When Aminah Hart and Scott Andersen, from Victoria, Australia, first met, it was about a year after their daughter Leila was born. In 2012, Aminah gave birth to her daughter after conceiving her through IVF with an anonymous sperm donor. The decision to have a baby through IVF came after the loss of Aminah’s first two children, Marlon and Louis, who had died as infants from a genetic disorder called X-linked myotubular myopathy.
While still trying to heal from the loss of her children, Aminah still wanted to be a mom, and chose Scott’s profile mainly because he described himself as happy and healthy, two things she desperately wanted for her own children.
Yet as soon as Leila was born, Aminah wanted her daughter to have her father in her life, as she had grown up without a father herself. Through some searching, she managed to track Scott down, and sent him a photo of Leila through the IVF register.
Scott agreed to meet his biological daughter, and was stunned at her resemblance. “It was surreal,” Andersen told The Telegraph. “I was looking at this little girl — she looks like my other kids and like me. Blonde hair, blue eyes. It was overwhelming at the start. It wasn’t really my daughter, but it was.”
“Neither of us expected it to happen,” Scott said. “I fell in love with Leila before I fell in love with Aminah! It was all odd at the start. But Leila’s beautiful. We arranged to meet once a month. Aminah and I became quite friendly and Leila started calling me daddy and coming to me all the time.”
Eventually, Aminah and Scott’s relationship turned romantic and Scott proposed on the day that would have been her late son Louis’ birthday. ‘He went out to get milk with Leila and came back with an engagement ring, which was a real surprise because usually I spent the anniversaries of their death and birthdays having a quiet day,’ Aminah said.
Twelve months later, Scott and Aminah finally got married in front of their closest friends and families. ‘I did set out to have a family the conventional way and if I didn’t have them I wouldn’t have Leila or Scott. I would have never been looking for a sperm donor or thought to go through IVF to have a baby on my own.’
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[Featured Image: Aminah Hart]
Woman Tracked Down And Fell In Love With Her Anonymous Sperm Donor is an article from: LifeDaily