Rosanna Davison has opened up about her surrogacy journey saying nothing could have prepared her for how she felt watching her child being born.
Davison and her husband Wes Quirke became parents in November when their daughter Sophia was born.
The couple had gone through 14 early miscarriages before deciding that surrogacy was something they were going to do.
The decision was not one they took lightly, Davison told Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show, "The idea of a stranger carrying your child in another country was awful. I played with the idea for a few weeks to be honest, I wasn't sure if we could go ahead with it."
Speaking about the moment of Sophia's birth, Davison said it is something she thinks about every day.
"We'd seen our baby in the scans but we walked in and she was crowning and my mum was there too, she pushed me over as the surrogate was pushing the baby," she recalled.
"Then Sophia came out and I cut her cord and it was just, how could you prepare yourself for watching a stranger give birth to your child? It was just the most surreal, terrifying, emotional, amazing experience. I think about it every day."
When asked about the mix of emotions, she explained, "It was a big mash of everything, watching this woman, this amazing woman, I can never thank her enough, giving birth to the child, it was the moment we'd been thinking about for years and wishing for and hoping for and I was bawling my eyes out."
Davison said she hopes by sharing her story she might "give hope and inspiration" to others going through similar issues, emphasizing the importance of opening up conversations around fertility and surrogacy.
