This story had a rocky start. Now, we’re happy to report it has a happy ending.
Perth woman Bianca Fazey hooked up with a guy called Jeremy last April.
The pair met at a bar called ‘Harlem Wednesdays,’ spent the night together at the Rydges hotel and chose not to stay in touch, thinking they’d have no need to see each other again.
Nothing so unusual so far, right?
Except that Fazey subsequently discovered she was pregnant and decided to have the baby.
The Jurien-based woman had been diagnosed in 2011 with polycystic ovarian syndrome and told by doctors she would be unlikely to have kids naturally — so when she found out she was pregnant, she realised it may be her only chance to have a family.
The only problem? Without Jeremy’s details, she had no way to get in touch with him.
So in her attempts to track her unborn child’s father down to tell him about the pregnancy, the desperate young woman eventually resorted to a Gumtree ad.
“I have something that belongs to him,” Fazey wrote in the online ad, in which she also described Jeremy as a friend, “lovely gentleman” in his mid-20s.
Read Mamamia’s original post about Bianca’s ad here.
Fazey said that at the time of posting the ad in December, she was at her “wits’ end”.
Top Comments
I think it is wonderful that she went to such lengths to track him down, now a little boy doesn't have to grow up not knowing their dad, and a dad doesn't miss out on knowing his child. So brave of her considering the criticism and shaming she received by so many, good on her!
From memory this woman did say she used a condom, but I've heard of people with POCS or other conditions that have left them sterile not using condoms.
Just from another perspective- for those women using the diagnosis POCS as contraception- please don't. It doesn't save you from STIs.
I'm so happy this woman found love, and her beautiful baby, but it could have turned out differently. I had a friend who was also told she could not have children, and she didn't use condoms and wound up with a few nasty STIs.
If you're unable to have children, please still consider using protection.