A woman in the United Kingdom had a good life: a loving husband and a young child. Unfortunately, the husband caught cancer and died a short while later. But he loved kids a whole lot. So, before dying they had some of his semen frozen in case she wanted to try later. A couple of years after his death, Lisa Roberts used her husbands James’ sperm to knock herself up. [1] She spent the grand total of their savings on IVF to do so and tried for two years. The IVF only had about a 1 in 5 chance of working but produced a miracle daughter whom Mrs. Roberts named Jamie-Rose, in part after her posthumous father.
Heartstrings have officially been tugged. This is going to be a serious challenge to men who are having a hard time getting their wives pregnant. “Yeah, well Lisa got pregnant without a man, you need to step it up.” Our advice? Put Sade’s “This Is No Ordinary Love” on repeat and just let the magic happen.