A woman of 55 who advertised for an egg donor on London buses has given birth to a baby girl, Katy.
Linda Weeks and her husband Richard, from Kent, had been trying for a baby for 14 years.
The couple spent £2,000 on the adverts before finding an anonymous donor prepared to help them conceive. It was Linda's last chance for fertility treatment as it is only available to women under 55. Katy was born by Caesarean weighing 5lbs 11oz (2.6kg).
Commenting on the donor, Mrs. Weeks said: "She is extremely generous and she has given us the gift of life, and has given Katy the gift of life. Whatever Katy becomes in her life, it is down to three of us."
Mr Weeks added: "I'm just so proud and so grateful."
The advert said: "We'll never be Mummy and Daddy unless a wonderful woman aged 36 or under can help us by donating some of her eggs. You are our only chance of happiness."
Mrs Weeks who had already spent more than £20,000 on fertility treatment placed adverts for an egg donor in her local newsagents before advertising on the buses. The 50 adverts were placed on buses in London on 19 March 2007, the day before their 14th wedding anniversary, and included a photo of the couple getting married.
Transport for London said its advertising space had previously been used for marriage proposals and happy anniversary wishes, but never an appeal for an egg donor.
Almost 100 women responded to the Logan Centre for Assisted Reproduction in London after seeing the bus advert, but only one, who wasn't paid for the procedure went through with the egg donation. The fertilised egg was implanted at London Fertility Clinic.
July 2008
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