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Erin Clancy, 42, is a construction company owner and lives in New York, USA, with her husband Brian, 38, an electrician, and sons Dylan, 12 months, and Declan, six months. Here she tells the amazing story behind the twins' birth - one inside her own womb, and the other with a surrogate - who lived 900 miles away in Illinois. 5 Erin Clancy, 42 and twins Dylan & Declan - who were born six months apart and 900 miles away from each other 5 Dylan was six months old when his brother Declan, above, was born 900 miles away in Illinois 5 Erin and husband Brian at Dylan's baby shower “Holding my newborn Dylan in my arms, I couldn’t believe it.

He was perfect. I couldn’t wait for him to meet his ‘twin’ who was due to be born in six months. I met Brian in January 2016 on an online dating site.



Handsome and caring, he was just what I was looking for. Three years later, he proposed, and we married in September 2020. It was a beautiful day.

We started trying to get pregnant in January 2021, confident it would happen easily, which it didn’t. That June, aged 39, I began IVF treatment. The first round failed, and although the second was initially successful, I miscarried at seven weeks.

I was devastated, struggling to know what to do, especially as the medication for the cycles gave me horrible migraines. That’s when our thoughts turned to surrogacy. Most read in Fabulous GER BACK AGAIN Rangers cult hero seals stunning reunion with Steven Gerrard in Saudi Arabia NEAR MISS Horror .

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