Mother’s double surprise

Press, 8 March 1984, Page 13

Mother’s double surprise

NZPA-APSheffield, England

A housewife, aged 33, who had a test-tube baby daughter last year is now pregnant naturally and expecting twins. Doctors told Roselyne Walker and her husband, Paul, aged 33, seven years ago that they would never have children naturally and so they decided to try for a test-tube baby and had a daughter, Lucy, a year ago. “I think having Lucy must have done something to my system to allow me to become pregnant naturally,” Mrs Walker said at her home in Sheffield.

“It cost us almost £5OOO to have Lucy and although we wanted more children there was no way we could afford another test-tube baby/ Then this happened and when I was tola twins were on the way, I just couldn’t believe it,” she said.

Mrs Walker, herself a twin, said, “There are seven sets of twins in two tions of my family, but I never thought it would happen to me. I used to think it was unfair that some of our family could have two babies at a time and I couldn’t have one. But it has all changed now.”

Mr Walker, a maintenance engineer, said, “The news that another two are on the way is just unbelievable.”