‘I really felt that I needed two embryos and two female embryos. And our doctor said “I’m going to get one more for you, it’s too much of a risk. And we’ll do one retrieval and try and get one girl and call it quits after that.” And then I remember saying to John, when we got to a place where our embryos were getting tested, we had two embryos getting tested.

‘I said, “Ah man, our odds of getting at least one to be a girl and healthy is really slim.” I said, “I need you to support me, because I want to go back and do it again if we don’t get two. I really want two.” And he said, “Whatever you want to do, I support you.” We got home that day and we got a call from my fertility doctor, Dr. Wong, and he said “We got the results back and it’s the dream.” Said it’s two healthy baby girl embryos.

‘And John and I just burst into tears and we just couldn’t believe how lucky we’ve been after a series of a lot of unlucky moments in our life recently. One of those embryos is little baby Mae. She wouldn’t be here if we didn’t go through all that.’