Single and Longing for a Baby, Lisa Would Do Almost Anything to Conceive. Her Solution Was so Shocking She Still Hasn't Dared Tell Her Own Mother

Daily MailOctober 18, 2007

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WHEN Lisa Evans held her baby son Elliott in her arms for the first time, she was overwhelmed with love for her newborn child. But beneath the tender spectacle of this everyday scene lay the extraordinary story of the circumstances of his birth. For little Elliott is the product of a most unusual and some would say unsavoury liaison.

His father John, a man who claims to be a 37-year-old hospital doctor, was chosen by Lisa from an unregulated British internet website where sperm donors advertise their wares. If that were not controversial enough, when the couple met, they agreed that, unlike a conventional sperm donation which is carried out by artificial insemination, they should sleep together. This was, John suggested helpfully, a more 'natural' way to conceive a child.

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Single and Longing for a Baby, Lisa Would Do Almost Anything to Conceive. Her Solution Was so Shocking She Still Hasn't Dared Tell Her Own Mother

Thus, Lisa, 37, a nanny who lives in a two-bedroom cottage in rural Cheshire, found herself in a hotel room alone in bed with a complete stranger.

'I was incredibly nervous and several times I did think: "Gosh, what am I doing here?"' admits Lisa. 'I had brought an insemination kit to our meeting in readiness. But John was nice, very middle class and articulate, and all I could think about was how much I wanted a child and that he could be the man to give me one.

'So when he said "Well, shall we go ahead then?" I thought "Why not?" and I had sex with him. I know it is a big risk to take, but it was my fertile time and ultimately I just ...

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