A COUPLE used a £1million lottery win to help both their daughters have kids through IVF.
Ruth and Mark Chalmers also made sure Natalie and Leanne could support their new family by getting them on the property ladder mortgage-free.
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Both daughters had polycystic ovary syndrome, which makes it difficult to get pregnant as a result of irregular ovulation or no ovulation at all.
But Natalie gave birth to Koby, three, and Leanne. has Brogen, 19 months, after their parents funded their treatment.
Mr Chalmers, 60, called it another double lottery win, adding: “That’s how I look at it – the fact that the process was reasonably easy, and they were both successful in the first round.
“And, obviously, we’ve got the two boys.”
Natalie, 33, spent years trying to get pregnant and once rang her dad in tears because doctors wanted to take her womb out.
And Leanne, 36, was originally told that she would never be able to have children.
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Mr Chalmers and his wife, 61, of Halifax, West Yorks, planned to use a lump sum from his early retirement to fund Natalie’s IVF before the lottery win.
He said: “The lottery is a fantasy that became a reality for us. It’s given us a lot of security and a lot of pleasure, mostly over these two boys.”
Natalie said: “I just can’t thank them enough for it. They have given me Koby, really. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them.”
Leanne added: “When I was diagnosed, there wasn’t a lot out there. I tried researching it and there wasn’t really much to read about it.
“A lot of it was quite negative and it was pretty much: ‘You’ve got to get used to the fact that you’ll never have kids’.
“I found out quite young, I think I was 21 or 22, so it was quite devastating at the time, thinking that I’d never be able to have a family or children or anything.”
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