{"id":297856,"date":"2023-09-04T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297856"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T22:22:16","slug":"infertility-three-sons-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/infertility-three-sons-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Told she may never get pregnant, she welcomed three sons on the same day years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One UK mom who was told she could never get pregnant has welcomed three &#8216;rainbow baby&#8217; boys within 10 years, all three of whom were born on the same day, years apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Smith, 42, says she was told she could never get pregnant. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI suffered the heartache of watching friends and family members having children, adamant that it would never be my turn,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/06\/mom-beats-crazy-odds-by-having-3-rainbow-sons-with-same-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma is originally from Warrington, Cheshire, England, and was diagnosed with endometritis, an inflammation of the uterine lining, at 18. She underwent 10 operations to try and rid her body of the painful condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, despite the many efforts by the doctors, the endometritis returned and became more aggressive after each procedure. Because of this condition and the risks attached, doctors told her she would need to have children early in her life to give her the best chance at getting pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy and child. But pregnancy did not come easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/told-life-risk-baby-die-refused-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Told that she and her baby would both likely die, she still refused abortion<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She began to think of herself as the &#8220;&#8216;Bridget Jones\u2019&#8217; of the group, watching [her friends] having their children and families and everything and genuinely never thought it would happen for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little did she know that she would finally have children and that it would happen for her and her partner, Dave Mycock, in a beautiful and \u2014 some might say \u2014 miraculous way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two welcomed their first son, Alfie James, now 7, on June 20, 2016, whom she calls their \u201cmiracle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, they welcomed two more sons, Jesse Joe and Arley Jay, who were each born on the same day as their big brother, years apart. The odds of this are a crazy 133,000 to one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2023\/08\/07\/mom-has-3-rainbow-babies-all-with-the-same-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talker<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cIf you were to put a bet on a horse with those odds, you\u2019d never think it would come in as a winner, but we certainly have &#8211; three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma continued, saying that she considered herself a \u201cspiritual person\u201d and explaining that there was a numerical significance to June 20 that related to her and Dave\u2019s birthdays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She explained to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/talker.news\/2023\/08\/07\/mom-has-3-rainbow-babies-all-with-the-same-birthday\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talker<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cMy birthday is May 11 and Dave\u2019s is May 9. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said, &#8221;How ironic is this, our birthdays added together equal 20 and that\u2019s really lovely because that\u2019s \u2018Alfie\u2019s birthday.&#8217; So we\u2019ll never forget &#8211; me plus you equals him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/stop-planned-parenthood\/?utm_campaign=sex_ed_petition&amp;utm_medium=LAN&amp;utm_source=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-295788 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur-500x129.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Stop-PP-From-Sexualizing-Kids970x250-blur.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One UK mom who was told she could never get pregnant has welcomed three &#8216;rainbow baby&#8217; boys within 10 years, all three of whom were born on the same day, years apart. Emma Smith, 42, says she was told she could never get pregnant. \u201cI suffered the heartache of watching friends and family members having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":947,"featured_media":186257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9455],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Told she may never get pregnant, she welcomed three sons on the same day years apart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After being told she may never get pregnant, this mom welcomed &#039;miracle&#039; babies on the same day, years apart.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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