A mum has told how a 30-year longing for a baby was finally answered weeks before her 51st birthday. Fiona Myles spent decades yearning to be a mum but had finally decided it was never going to be.
She and her husband Brian had tried everything. There had been one glimmer of hope when she fell pregnant with twins after IVF, but heartbreakingly lost them.
Fiona, who had been adopted, was keen not to go down the adoption line as she says she had found it a struggle. She was concerned about putting another child through the same issues she had, reports the Manchester Evening News.
But then her life was to be transformed when she heard a baby within her biological family was being placed for adoption. A relative’s daughter, named Georgie, suffered a brain haemorrhage hours after she was born leaving her with additional needs which meant her parents could not care for her.
But for Fiona, now at the age of 50, it suddenly “felt right”. Fiona and Brian stepped forwards and after an intense application process, Georgie was placed into their care. They family now live happily together in Swinton – with Fiona’s desperate longing for a child finally at an end.
She said: “The yearning I had for over 30 years had come to pass. And she is part of my own bloodline because she’s from the family I was adopted out of.
“She was placed in our care six weeks before I was 51. We believe this is the child we were meant to have.
“I never wanted to adopt because I struggled with the process (of being an adoptee). I had a wonderful family but my emotional senses couldn't manage it. I didn't want a child to feel like they didn't fit in or were unwanted.”
Fiona, now 56, and Bryan had to move home and leave their jobs in order to care for Georgie, who attends The Leaf, a special resourced class at Lewis Street Primary School in Salford. “We had to learn how to be parents because none of us had been parents before,” Fiona continued. “It was a huge learning curve but as each night went on, we were finally so overjoyed to finally be parents.
“It far outweighs any of the difficulties we have faced because she does have complex needs and is in special education. She has her special little ways and she’s such a joy; she’s not easy and we don’t have an easy time because she's a ball of energy.
“I call her my tornado because she just fills a room – even if she goes into a packed room. My husband was diagnosed with cancer just as we were going through the process.
“We thought everything is coming to stop us getting our little Georgie, but when she was placed in our house at the end of January it was like our whole world tipped over into a whole new realm because we were older and we had a 13-month-old baby. Life is now completely amazing.”
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