Three sisters and a baby
When Alex Patrick was left infertile after a treatment for cancer her twin sister, Charlotte Pestell, and older sister, Helen Ritchie, joined forces to help her have a baby.
Charlotte donated eggs, which were fertilised with sperm from Alex's husband, Shaun, and the embryo was then implanted inside Helen who acted as the surrogate mum. Unbelievably, this is the second time they've helped their sister out.
Here's our interview (click the arrow to listen)
Here are Helen, Charlie and Charlotte:
And here's Alex with her two sons -- Charlie who's three and Oliver who's fifteen weeks old.
UPDATE
You can read more about the story on the BBC News site in the article'The two boys who have three mums'
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Oh good grief.
This is a news station.
Babies and Kaka. Football and bad mouthing rugby.
GET A GRIP LOUISE.
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The joy radiates out of those photographs adding an extra dimension to the interview. Many thanks for sharing such an inspiring story.
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How is this news? Or even vaguely interesting?
I don't care whether they are all in a ménage à quatre or whose sperm is going where. Good luck to them.
But I really don't want to know!
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Software cant handle acute accents obviously and has deleted the letters in menage a quatre.
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Ah, Babies again...
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