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Baby Born 15 Months After Dead Olympic Champion’s Sperm Is Harvested

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Susana Vera via Reuters

When Australian Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Alex “Chumpy” Pullin died in a freak diving accident in July 2020, his wife, Ellidy Pullin, didn’t want to give up the dream of having his baby.

The two had been trying to conceive for months and had decided to try in vitro fertilization if they weren’t soon successful, she wrote on Instagram announcing the her pregnancy through posthumous sperm retrieval. “IVF was on our cards but it wasn’t something I ever imagined I’d be tackling on my own,” she said in an interview in Australian media. “A piece of the phenomenon that is Chumpy will be welcomed back into the world.”

On Thursday, she announced the birth of the couple’s daughter, Minnie, born Oct. 25, some 15 months after her husband died. “Hello, I had a baby,” she wrote her social media. “And we have been a lil busy and tired.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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