Woman gives birth to ‘eBaby’ after buying SPERM ONLINE via APP

She started looking into private fertility clinics in 2019 but at up to £1,600 for Intrauterine insemination (IUI) – where sperm is put into a woman’s uterus at her fertile time of the month – it was too costly.

And she wasn’t prepared to wait until she found a relationship as she didn’t want men dipping in and out of her son’s life.

A pal recommended the Just A Baby App and Stephenie decided to try her luck. 

It lets you search by parameters such as distance and whether you are looking for surrogates, sperm, egg or embryo donors.

Like the popular dating app Tinder, you swipe right if you are interested in someone’s profile – and if they reciprocate it’s a ‘match’ and you can message each other. 

She said she wanted a family-orientated bloke with no history of serious illness, ideally with similar features to her so their kid would look like Frankie.

She matched with the perfect man – a 43-year-old, green-eyed, brown-haired businessman – within a day.

And after messaging for three weeks – with the donor providing proof of a clean STI check – they arranged for him to come over to Stephanie’s house in Nunthorpe, Teesside, in January 2020 to donate his sperm.

Stephenie explained: “Straight away I was at ease with him. 

“He was nice, warm and friendly and we had a cup of tea and chatted about the weather.”

In less than 10 minutes, the donor had left her a cup of sperm which she then used to inseminate herself.

In the UK, it’s illegal to pay a donor anything other than expenses, which is up to £35 a pop for sperm and £750 for egg donors, but the donor even refused

petrol money.

Two weeks after meeting, Stephanie went to the beach in nearby Redcar with her mum, sister and Frankie and, feeling off, bought a pregnancy test.

She said: “I was in shock when it was positive, I was shaking and then just complete excitement and I just knew I was having a girl.”

She was open with her family and her mum and sister were delighted but she said it took her dad a while to get his head around her using a donor, although he now thinks it was a “brilliant decision.”

Donor apps like Just A Baby are a legal minefield. 

Whereas donors have no legal rights if they donate via a licensed fertility clinic, arrangements like Stephanie’s are far trickier.