Matthew Wright has said he can imagine himself being a stay-at-home dad when he and his wife welcome their much longed-for baby after eight years of trying.
The 53-year-old broadcaster and his wife Amelia, 42, recently revealed they are expecting a daughter after their final attempt at IVF succeeded.
Matthew, who stood down from his Channel 5 talk show The Wright Stuff in June after 18 years, told Hello! magazine: “I’m excited – and terrified.
“I’ve only ever held two babies in my entire life! Now I can envisage becoming the primary carer when Amelia returns to work.”
He described their latest IVF treatment as “our final roll of the dice” and said they had “waited a long time for this moment”.
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Matthew, who now hosts a show on talkRADIO, added: “Every day we keep pinching ourselves because we can hardly believe it’s finally happening.”
The couple, who married in 2010, are due to welcome their daughter on Valentine’s Day next year.
They have tried to have children several times over the years after Amelia, a record company executive, had an ectopic pregnancy in 2009 having fallen pregnant with twins.
She said: “I felt an explosion inside of me, and thought, ‘That’s it, I’m dying.’ It was terrifying. I could see my life flash before me and knew that if doctors had waited to operate, I wouldn’t make it to the morning.”
Amelia underwent IVF treatment and fell pregnant six more times, but each ended in miscarriage.
Their seventh attempt saw them have to decide whether to donate their last embryo to medical science, or to try pregnancy one more time.
Amelia said: “I couldn’t bring myself to give it up. Without any expectation, I wanted one last shot.”
Read the full article in Hello! magazine, out now.
Amelia shared the couple’s happy news in a post on Twitter on September 11.
“After 8 challenging years of IVF, we are thrilled to announce that on our last roll of the dice, we got lucky and are expecting a baby girl. Woo hoo!” she tweeted.
She teased that her husband was “still in a state of shock”.
Matthew later said on his talkRADIO show: “She’s due on Valentine’s Day, and it’s a girl. Amelia, my wife, has had a very very difficult time of it. Some of you will know, that we’ve been trying through IVF after she had an ectopic and it tore up inside. It was all very awful.
“We’ve been trying using IVF for eight years, and she gets pregnant each time, but then miscarries at 11 or 12 weeks, which is a very difficult and uncomfortable thing.
“We had some frozen embryos, and she’d gone through two out of three of those. The last one wasn’t very big, and everyone was a bit shruggy shoulders and she was thinking about giving it to science for scientific research.
“You know, I’m 53, coming up 54, she’s 42, and, we were just thinking it’s not going to happen. It’s too late.”
Matthew then joked: “She was quite sympathetic to the fact that I’m getting on and I don’t really want to spend the last chapter of my life looking after bloody kids. But anyway, that’s what I’m going to be doing now, and I’m delighted and thrilled.”
He added: “I won’t use the word miracle. It’s not a miracle, it’s the appliance of science. But I will say, Amelia’s very lucky, and I must be very lucky too.”
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