Jaimee’s big heart ‘OUR QUEST TO HELP OTHERS’

The IVF champion feels blessed to support others achieve their parenthood goals

- Sophie Neville

In the wardrobe at the Coatesville home Jaimee Lupton shares with her fiancé, Zuru co-founder Nick Mowbray, she keeps one of her most precious possessions: bronze casts of the tiny hands and feet of the baby girl they lost to stillbirth three years ago.

Every day, those keepsakes remind her not only of the daughter they lost, but also of how much she has to be grateful for. Their spirited two-year-old Noa has filled the house with energy and laughter, helping to mend her parents’ broken hearts.

And now, as the beauty entrepreneur welcomes the Woman's Weekly into her and Nick’s sprawling property, she has more joyful news to share.

After an eight-year fertility journey marked by IVF, miscarriage and unimaginable loss, the 34-year-old is pregnant again. This time, it’s a little boy.

“We feel incredibly lucky,” says Monday Haircare co-founder Jaimee, who launched fertility charity Gingernut’s Angels three years ago. “I’ve always loved the idea of having a tribe and I know Noa will be the best big sister. She’ll be bossy, that’s for sure — she definitely knows her own mind — but she'll love having a brother to play with.”

More than halfway through, Jaimee is feeling well, with any morning sickness now behind her. But given everything she and Nick, 41, have been through to build their family, this pregnancy remains one they are celebrating with cautious optimism.

“At the start, when you get the positive result, it’s sort of a ‘let’s wait and see’ situation, rather than jumping around the room saying, ‘Yay!’ We've been through enough to know you don’t assume everything will work out.”

This latest pregnancy came after yet another difficult chapter. Following Noa’s birth, one round of IVF resulted in no embryos at all. A subsequent cycle brought fresh hope, but the first embryo transfer ended in miscarriage. They tried again at the beginning of this year and Jaimee was relieved to fall pregnant.