Siobhan's little miracle BACK HOME FOR BABY NO.2!

In her own words, Outrageous Fortune star Siobhan Marshall, 37, shares how she and her actor hubby escaped Hollywood to expand their family

With all the huge changes 2020 brought to everyone’s lives, my husband Millen Baird and I put one extra thing on our plates – baby number two!

We already had a mischievous little two-year-old girl who had been begging for a sibling, so Mills and I thought we’d expand our wee family and try for a second baby. Little did I know this would mean being pregnant during an international move and a global pandemic!

Remy Rose, our little daughter, is an IVF baby. Four years ago, we went through the procedure to make a family through Fertility Associates. We were lucky enough to make multiple embryos, which we were then able to freeze. One of those embryos became Remy and another is our new baby, who is growing nicely and on the way in June!

It’s crazy when I think about it – baby number two was from the same “batch” as Remy, but there will be almost three years between them. Isn’t science amazing?!

When we decided to start going down the baby road again at the end of 2019, Mills, Remy and I were living in Los Angeles for work. We planned to take a trip back to New Zealand in April 2020, in time for my sister’s wedding, and while we were there, have another go at IVF.

Unfortunately, COVID had other ideas. The world turned upside down. My sister postponed her wedding, and Mills and I cancelled our trip. We hunkered down in LA for what would turn out to be six long months of isolation, “waiting for this whole COVID thing to blow over”.