BBC presenter welcomes ‘miracle’ baby with his wife after 10 rounds of IVF and reveals cute name
A BBC presenter and his Sky News editor wife have welcomed a new baby after a 12-year-long struggle to have a family.
The couple are celebrating the arrival of their miracle little boy following multiple unsuccessful IVF attempts.
BBC’s Will Glennon, 52, and Sky’s Emily Deeker, 43, began their journey in 2012.
They welcomed their first child, Olivia, three years ago, born from one of their last frozen embryos.
In October, miracle baby Harry was born – following the end of their fertility treatment – making their ultimate dream come true.
The elated mum-of-two wrote on social media alongside some adorable pictures: “Almost sure I’m not supposed to be sitting on the floor covered in kids four days after a caesarean section, but I waited so long to have them, who cares… HASHTAG TIRED BUT HAPPY!!!”
BBC anchor Will added: “He’s here. Harry Michael Glennon. We didn’t dare to dream we’d ever get this lucky.”
Emily told The Mirror: “When our daughter turned two, we said to each other, ‘We have got another embryo left sitting in the clinic in Bristol so let’s try it’.
“But we absolutely didn’t think that it would end in a successful pregnancy and bring in the baby just because we had to do so many rounds of treatment to get our little girl.
“If that 12th and final frozen embryo hadn’t matured to become Harry, we would have been grateful just to have had our beautiful Olivia after such a long wait, but I was already 42 then so if we were going to try, time was running out.”
Emily had started to lose faith in her hopes for a family after failed rounds of treatment.
She admitted: “At first you think that IVF is going to be the answer to your prayers and often I think what you don’t realise when you start it is that it doesn’t work for everybody.
“We learned somewhere along the journey not to get our hopes up and to manage our expectations – and we really trained ourselves to do that over the years.
“We were trying to have a family for 12 years in total and learned not to take anything for granted.”
On her shock second pregnancy, she said: “When we found it had worked again and then we did find out before he was born that we were going to have a little boy, all of our dreams came true to have a daughter and a son.”
Emily, who started her fertility journey aged 30, added: “It is lovely to be the mum of a little boy and a little girl and just feels like it was all worth it, all of the pain and the perseverance over the years paid off and we are overjoyed.
“We wanted our little girl to have a sibling – and now she won’t leave him alone.”
Will was previously involved in a near-death bike crash in 2014 during a ride near his home in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
He ended up in a coma after breaking every rib, puncturing a lung and suffering a huge head injury.
If he had not been wearing a helmet, he would have died ‘there and then’.