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Australian cricket fast bowler urges men to consider sperm donation after baby joy

By Camron Slessor

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Two women sit on a couch holding their baby daughter
Jess and Megan Schutt are urging men to consider donating their sperm.(ABC News: Camron Slessor)

Australian fast bowler Megan Schutt may be reaching new heights in her cricketing career, but it was the birth of her daughter Rylee — conceived via a sperm donation — that changed her perspective on life.
 

Rylee was born three months premature, prompting Megan and her wife Jess to share their story — and join the call for more people to become sperm donors.

Rylee came into the world with the help of an Adelaide fertility specialist and a process called reciprocal IVF.

Megan's egg was fertilised using donor sperm and implanted into Jess's womb.

While the couple fell pregnant quickly, Jess had a complicated pregnancy — after several emergency hospitalisations and scans, doctors found that Rylee was not growing as she should have been.

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