Baby Daisy is worth every penny

Baby Daisy is worth every penny'
Robert Mendick
06.05.09

As Daisy Bains crawls round her parents' living room, she could be any happy nine-month-old. But Daisy is the product of a 13-year struggle by Nikki and Bobby Bains to become parents.

Her birth was the result of an extraordinary surrogacy which crossed religious barriers to create a "gift from God".

The epic battle that ended when Daisy was born last July is testimony to the couple's relentless determination to have a child.

Their quest began in 1995 with the first of a series of IVF treatments in Britain and ended at a hospital in...