Source : Perth Now news
Model and TV presenter Erin Holland and her husband, Australian cricketer Ben Cutting, have welcomed their first child after a gruelling and difficult fertility journey.
The couple took to Instagram to announce their baby daughter’s safe arrival on August 18.
Holland posted a set of black and white photographs which pictured the happy new family-of-three.
“All of a sudden, it all makes sense,” the new mum captioned her post.
“It was always you.”
Holland’s Channel 7 colleagues took to the comments to congratulate the couple.
“Beautiful news,” The Morning Show co-host Kylie Gillies said.
“How special. Congrats you guys. The best news,” TV host and previous vet Dr Chris Brown commented.
The couple have been open about their issues with infertility, previously sharing they had endured four miscarriages, 20 rounds of IVF, five egg collections, seven transfers and one ectopic pregnancy.
“I think the hard part about infertility and pregnancy loss is that beautiful naivety of just seeing a double line on a pregnancy test is robbed from you because the first time you do it, it’s elation, it’s so exciting,” Holland said on a podcast experience in May.
“Then the second time you do it, you’re cautiously excited. By the third and the fourth time, you think it’s catfishing you.”
Cutting took to Instagram in May to announce the pregnancy, three months before the due date.
“Countless disappointments, hormones, surgeries … lead to this one,” he wrote.
“I don’t know how she pushed through.”
Cutting and Holland previously shared they learned IVF was their “only real option to have a baby” after their February 2021 wedding.
“As someone who went in just wanting to freeze embryos until the time was ‘right’, I’ve grappled with the confusing feelings of the loss of any ‘normality’ of this process, feeling like the universe was telling me I’m not meant to be a mother,” Holland told Channel 7 in 2022.
