'I will deliver my own baby'

Midwife Georgia Barrington shares how she will soon welcome her first child - carried by her best friend, surrogate Daisy Hope

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Stroking her best friend’s pregnant bump and marvelling at her scan pictures, midwife Georgia Barrington can barely contain her delight. She delivered her pal Daisy Hope’s daughter Emilia, three, and her services will soon be called upon again.

Only this time one thing will be very different - she will deliver her own biological baby, which Daisy is carrying as her surrogate.

Daisy, 29, is keeping her teenage promise to lend her friend - diagnosed with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome aged 15, meaning she was born without a uterus - her womb.

Georgia, 28, from Maidstone, Kent, said: "It was always my dream to be a mum. But I was born without a uterus, so I knew I couldn't carry my own baby.

"When I was diagnosed with MRKH at 15, Daisy wasn't super maternal and said, 'I'll carry your baby.' It was kind of a joke but that promise always stuck.

"It felt like the end of the world at the time, when I was diagnosed. I thought, 'What am I going to do?'"

Daisy, who is head of a school weekend programme, added: "I was always meant to do it. I genuinely did mean it when I offered.

"Now I realise how incredible it is to be a mum and if I'm able to do it, Georgia deserves it."

Friends since they were toddlers, the women now live a 20-minute drive apart and see each other every week. Incredibly close, when Daisy, also from Maidstone, had Emilia in April 2022 - with her partner, Oliver Millson, 30, who has a family business - Georgia was the only person she wanted as her midwife.

"I delivered Daisy's daughter. I always knew I would be the one to do it," smiled Georgia. "I knew the date she was being induced, so I cleared all my other clinic appointments to be there for her.