I could’ve died weeks before a surrogate delivered my baby – my brother’s the only reason I lived to see her grow up

MAGDA Barton, 36, an online learning company manager, lives in Edinburgh with her husband Tom, 37, a university lecturer, and their daughter Hannah, 22 months.

“As the midwife passed my newborn, I held her and promptly burst into tears. My husband Tom and I couldn’t believe that after years of struggling, we finally had the baby we’d dreamed of. It was all thanks to our surrogate Sarah* and my brother Maciej – who had risked his health to give me a life-saving kidney.