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Father holding his baby boy who is falling asleep

Becky Gomez was ready to give up. For almost eight years, she and her husband, Jim Gomez, had tried everything to become parents. 

They had awakened at the break of dawn on seemingly endless occasions to rush to the fertility doctor's office, where Becky had endured a string of uncomfortable and costly treatments, including in vitro fertilisation and countless other procedures with names she could barely pronounce.