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Indeed It was a very special event in the Lawrie family. When Myla was born in October, she was the first girl to be born in her family since 1809.
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| Baby Myla with Brothers |
The last time a midwife announced ‘It’s a girl’, the motorcar was yet to be invented, and ‘mad’ King George III was on the English throne.
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| Hannah and her baby girl |
As a midwife, Hannah has delivered more than 200 babies and admitted to feeling pangs of envy every time it was a girl.
When Mark and I first got together, he told me how everyone in his family, for five generations, had produced boys,’ explains Hannah. ‘He warned me that the chances of us ever having a daughter were pretty remote.
She says: ‘I adore the boys, but I’d write up my notes, while listening to the new mum bonding with her daughter, and be filled with longing, wishing it could be me one day — yet truly believing it never would be.’
Desperate to improve their chances of having a girl, Hannah came across the Shettles Method, developed by an American doctor in the Sixties, which claims the timing of conception can help determine the baby’s sex.
This is based on evidence that male sperm (Y chromosome) are faster, weaker and have a shorter lifespan than female sperm (X chromosome), which are slower but survive for longer. This means that having sex before ovulation, rather than during, should increase the likelihood of conceiving a girl, as only the female sperm will survive long enough to penetrate the egg.
Hannah used ovulation kits to work out when she was ovulating. Love-making was allowed only early on in Hannah’s cycle. As soon as the kit showed she was approaching ovulation, intercourse was banned for the rest of the month.
Hannah admits it was far from romantic, but says she wanted to give it their best shot.
Then, at the 20-week scan, they received the astonishing news that they were expecting a girl.
‘I was in a state of disbelief,’ says Hannah. ‘I kept asking the sonographer if she was sure.
‘Mark was so emotional he was in tears, crying that it was a gift from his Dad — who, sadly, passed away just before I fell pregnant. He’d told us he’d love a granddaughter.’
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