Meet the mum who is raising her premature twins alone - after conceiving with sperm from a stranger she met on Facebook. <br /><br />Sarah Mangat, 34, had been single for nearly eight years when she decided to embark on solo motherhood in July 2020. <br /><br />She had planned to use a sperm bank but found the process ''too impersonal’' so instead found a Facebook group for sperm donors. <br /><br />After hitting it off with someone, Sarah underwent 14-months of fertility tests at Victory Reproductive Health Fertility Clinic, Ontario, Canada, where they medically monitored her cycle.<br /><br />When the time was right, she used the stranger's sperm and was shocked to discover she had not only fallen pregnant on the first go but was expecting twins. <br /><br />Despite her joy, she had a difficult pregnancy and was told her short cervix could cause premature birth or miscarriage. <br /><br />Doctors performed a cervical stitch to stop it opening too soon, but the procedure failed after two weeks, and Sarah went into premature labour in April 2022. <br /><br />Her daughters, one-year-old Elora and Addison, arrived at 27-weeks on 30 April 2022 at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. <br /><br />Elora was born at 6.38pm weighing 2lb 20z and Addison arrived shortly after at 6.42pm weighing 1lb 9oz. <br /><br />The pair suffered a catalogue of health issues including a bleed on the brain, heart defects, jaundice, and infections. <br /><br />Despite the odds stacked against them, Elora spent 70 days in hospital and Addison was in for 79 days, until they were all able to go home. <br /><br />Sarah, an HR business partner, from Toronto, Canada, said: “I had tried every dating app under the sun and wasn’t meeting someone. <br /><br />"You can't wait forever for the right person to come into your life.<br /><br />"If you're thinking about doing it alone, I say do it.<br /><br />"It's the best decision I ever made.<br /><br /> “I nearly had a heart attack when they told me there was two.<br /><br />"But I can't imagine my life without my daughters."
