A mum who struggled to sit down or dance on her wedding day just 10 days after giving birth says she has no regrets - and her newborn was the best gift.
Allie Svarc, 29, struggled for three years to conceive and went through four rounds of fertility treatment - three of IUI and one of IVF - before falling pregnant.
At the same time, Allie and her husband, 32, had to re-plan their wedding, after their initial date was cancelled due to the pandemic.
They set a date two years in advance of their first date, but with just nine months to go, Allie was delighted to fall pregnant - with a due date just THREE WEEKS before the big day.
Just 10 days before their big day, Allie went into labour and gave birth to a 9lbs boy, now 15 weeks, at the end of October 2022.
Her "traumatic" birth meant she couldn't sit down during her big day on November 5, 2022, and the exhausted new parents were both in bed at 10.30pm.
But Allie says her new addition was the "cutest addition to their guest list".
The social media manager from Nottingham, Notts., said: "All three of us really enjoyed our day.
"On February 14, I found out I was finally pregnant.
"But we quickly realised - our wedding was also nine months away.
"It'd been so long since our original date, we thought, f**k it, we've been waiting three years for this - and we didn't reschedule.
"Wedding planning - on top of baby planning and working a full-time job - was a lot of admin. It was stressful.
"But I wouldn't change it for the world."
The couple were devastated when they were forced to reschedule their wedding,
originally planned for November 5, 2020.
They opted for November 5, 2022 - inviting over 100 guests to their ceremony in Derbyshire.
Allie said: "Because of the Covid pandemic, our planned venue went bust.
"Then, the registry said we were only allowed six people - and we wanted all my family there as well as my partner's.
"We’d wanted a baby since 2019 and in March 2019, we began trying.
"For nearly two years, nothing happened - and we had to accept the fact that we'd need to explore the possibility of fertility treatment."
After several unsuccessful rounds of IUI (intrauterine insemination) costing £4,000, Allie and her partner had their first NHS funded round of IVF in January 2022.
It worked and they were expecting in October 2022 - just three weeks away from their re-scheduled wedding.
“It wasn’t the wedding I’d initially planned - my friends threw me a joint hen do/baby shower - as two of my friends were also pregnant at the time," she said.
Allie went into labour in the early hours of October 23, 2022.
