Photos: The incredible love story of a woman who tracked down her anonymous sperm donor & they end up getting married
At the age of 42, Aminah decided to go through IVF using an anonymous
donor, after she tragically lost her two young sons Marlon and Louis
(at just 14 weeks and 14 months respectively), due to a genetic disorder
called x-linked myotubular myopathy.
She was ‘relieved’ and delighted when she gave birth to baby girl
Leila on August 14, 2012, but, as she herself had grown up without a
father, she decided she wanted Leila’s dad to play a part in her life.
So, she set about tracking him down.
Luckily, Scott had told the fertility clinic that he was willing to
meet a child born from his sperm. On August 18, 2013, a year after
their daughter was born, Aminah and Scott met for the first time in
Melbourne.
“It was much easier than I’d anticipated. I was nervous … I was
walking in to meet a complete stranger and I had his genetic child in my
arms,” Aminah says.
There was an instant spark and, over the following months, the two gradually fell in love.
In December 2015, they exchanged vows in a ceremony on the beach in
front of 130 of their closest friends and family in Sorrento, Victoria.
“It was utterly spectacular overlooking the sea, but it was blowing an absolute gale,” Aminah recalls.
Their daughter Leila was a flower girl, although she initially wasn’t
that fussed. ‘She wasn’t interested at first and kept saying “you can’t
marry my mum” but she ended up getting caught up in it all and was the
most divine little flower girl,’ mum explained.
For advertising executive Aminah, it was a day to cherish after years
of struggling to overcome the death of her two young sons. She had
travelled to London in her twenties to find her father Tony, only to
learn he’d died a couple of years before. She stayed in London for many
years, marrying and having a son, Marlon, who sadly died at just
14-weeks-old as the result of a congenital disorder.
Returning to Melbourne after the end of her marriage Aminah had
another baby boy, Louis, who tragically died of the same congenital
disorder at 14 months. At 42, she bravely decided to give motherhood one
last try. Little did she know that an anonymous sperm donor would
eventually give her both the large family (Scott also has three boys and
a girl) and the happiness she was searching for.
“It really felt like the beginning of something incredibly beautiful.
You could see the happiness and pure elation in the room. The band knew
how to work and audience and got everyone on to the dance floor – even
Scott who is not one to dance” Aminah described her wedding day- even
Scot who is not one to dance.”
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