A UK woman discovered that she was pregnant with a “miracle baby” just two days after her partner was killed in a car accident.
According to The Mirror, Lizzy Phillipson and her boyfriend Grant Benson had been concerned that they would struggle to conceive after the 26-year-old underwent treatment on pre-cancerous cells in her cervix.
However, just two days after hearing that Benson has been killed in a tragic accident, she discovered that she had fallen pregnant with their first child.
“Losing Grant so suddenly was devastating. I felt as though he had been snatched away and I didn’t get a chance to say any kind of goodbye. We had been together for six months and had become very close, very quickly. When we’d had a couple of drinks, we’d talk about babies and Grant said we’d have beautiful children together.
“I was still in shock after his death, I hadn’t properly taken it in at all, when I discovered I was pregnant two days after the crash. I had never even considered it to be a possibility because we’d had very little chance to be intimate because of the treatment I’d been having, it really is a complete miracle, it should never have happened. But now he’s left a legacy that we’re all so grateful for. I know he’d have been thrilled but he died without knowing he was going to be a father.”
Lizzie said that telling Grant’s mother the news was “very emotional”.
“I handed over the envelope with the scan picture in about two weeks after his funeral. She stared at it as though she didn’t quite understand what she was looking at and then realised it was his baby.”
“I’m so happy to be carrying Grant’s baby and I’ll move to be close to his family so that they can all be close to his little boy or girl.”
