Rosanna Davison has revealed she’s had no contact with her baby’s surrogate.
The former Miss World and her husband Wes Quirke will welcome their first child next month via gestational surrogacy.
In gestational surrogacy, the child is not biologically related to the surrogate mother, who is often referred to as a gestational carrier.
Speaking to the Irish Mirror about her experience using a surrogate, Rosanna said: “We have had no contact with the surrogate, they keep that totally separate. There is an agency who does all the co-ordination stuff.”
“We have kind of kept busy this year with work and house stuff because it is weird to think about someone else experiencing the little kicks and the hormones and the tiredness that comes with being pregnant so yeah, we’ve managed.”
The 35-year-old, who suffered several miscarriages before decided to go down the surrogacy route, added: “We are so lucky now with the leaps and bounds of science.”
“I look at my mum who had her own issues seperate to mine but she wouldn’t have had the options I’ve had so we are so lucky these days.
“I just think it is a miracle there can be a woman thousands of miles away carrying our biological child. It is a miracle to us. It’s really incredible.”
Rosanna also said she’s glad she’s shared her journey with people online, as she has helped “normalise” the conversation.
She said: “It was really important to us to kind of talk about our journey and our experience and normalise the conversation about fertility and pregnancy loss and show people who maybe are struggling – which according to statistics is one in sixcouples.”
“I think being open and talking about it has been really helpful for the whole process. So I would encourage anyone who is going through pregnancy loss or fertility issues to try and talk to family and friends and be open about it.
“It really does help and it helps to reduce the sense of blaming yourself for everything and the sense of guilt because it such a complex, sensitive issue,” Rosanna continued.
“I understand why people talk about it more because it is so wrapped up in emotion and sort of feelings of blaming yourself and things. I think people appreciate that and even in my close friends group, a number of them have suffered pregnancy losses so it’s a part of life, unfortunately.”
“But it is just about normalising the conversation a bit more and being able to talk about it and show people there is hope at the end of the long journey.”
Rosanna also revealed her surrogate is based abroad, which means Rosanna and Wes will have to fly out of the country to meet their little girl and bring her home to Ireland.
“We will stay there a few weeks I think, just because she will be brand new and we have to get her emergency passport and get various papers organised as well,” she said.
“But the nice thing is on her birth cert she is immediately ours, there is no mention of surrogacy, she’s an Irish citizen immediately so it has all worked out very well.”
