CAROLYN'S MIRACLE BABY 'I'M SO IN LOVE!'

The TV star introduces the little man she never thought she’d have

- Rebecca Barry Hill

It only takes a glimpse at Carolyn Keep’s face to see how besotted she is with her two-month-old son Jasper James. The former What Now presenter and Dancing With The Stars contestant is rugged up at home on a cold morning, little Jasper feeding peacefully, his doting mother gently stroking his soft, downy hair. As his long eyelashes flutter and he drifts off to sleep on her lap, Carolyn still can’t quite believe he’s real.

“I know so many mums find it really hard getting up for their babies in the middle of the night and I feel for them, but I’m just so in love,” the 40-year-old says, her eyes welling up. “I sit there and I’m like, ‘I’d never sleep again – I just want to be near you.’ Because he wasn’t even meant to be here.”

Turns out Jasper likes to surprise. Carolyn (née Taylor) and husband Wes, 40, hadn’t expected they’d ever be able to have a baby after the TV presenter, MC and media personality was told, at the age of 36, that she was infertile and peri-menopausal, with too few eggs to conceive naturally.

When her younger sister Joanna offered to donate her eggs to help, the couple made plans to undergo IVF. But Jasper beat them to it with a positive test on Carolyn’s 40th birthday sending them into ecstatic shock.

Then, just over 36 weeks into what had been a dream pregnancy, she woke at 4 am to find her waters had broken. “My gut feeling was that he’d come a bit early,” tells Carolyn, who was herself born six weeks before her due date and suspects her petite stature led the baby to run out of room to grow.