THIS is the moment a boxer and his partner desperate for a family saw their ‘miracle’ baby for the first time.

And remarkably their unborn baby, who is aptly due on Boxing Day, was even pictured holding out their fist like a boxer in the womb.

After three years struggling to have children, Jade Devenish and Iain Weaver have told of their joy as they fell pregnant following IVF treatment – and have told others to never give up hope.

Jade, who is 13 weeks pregnant said: “We are overjoyed and it still feels so surreal.

“I have never ever felt so blessed. Our very own little miracle is due on Boxing Day which is very apt and in the scan was even holding a fist up, like their daddy!

“It has been such a crazy journey for us. But tough times don’t last, tough people do.”

Jade, who met Iain, professional boxer and former Commonwealth champion who boxed for Great Britain, when she worked for a boxing promoter six years ago said she soon knew she wanted a family.

She said: “I hadn’t thought about having children before but when I met Iain I just knew I wanted us to be a family.”

However when the pair did not fall pregnant, Jade went to her GP for advice, who referred the couple for tests.

The pair, who are both 27, were told there were no apparent problems but had ‘unexplained infertility’ and were referred to Salisbury District Hospital for IVF treatment in September last year.

Devastatingly though, the first attempt was unsuccessful and Jade, who works as a flight attendant, said she began to feel there was no hope.

“I felt like a failure," she said.

"You do blame yourself. I knew how much Iain wanted a big family and it just was not happening. I was eating healthily, drinking a lot of water, swimming, running and Iain is obviously very fit, there was no real reason we shouldn’t be able to have children.

“All my friends were having babies and of course, you don’t want to take anything away from them, but it really is hard when you are living with the heartache of it. All you can see is baby announcements on social media, pregnant couples around the shops and newborn babies.

“At Christmas because I work as a flight attendant and I was having IVF, I was grounded with ‘the bumps’ – all the ladies who are pregnant and can’t fly and we had a little do. I turned up in a reindeer jumper and they all had matching green Christmas jumpers with ‘I love my little pudding’ on them. I walked in and walked back out again.”

There was one last hope though. The couple had two final frozen embryos, which were transferred in April this year.

Two weeks later Jade had an appointment scheduled for a blood test to find out if she was pregnant. However she was so adamant it would not be successful, she wanted to miss the appointment.

“I didn’t think it would work. It is so so tough. Nothing makes you doubt yourself so much as a woman as not being able to have a baby. It is meant to be the most natural thing in the world. I remembered before when it didn’t work how embarrassed and ashamed I felt. I couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed.”

But Jade had bought three pregnancy tests and decided to find out herself without anyone around.

“I didn’t tell anyone but I did a pregnancy test and put it on the same side in the bathroom where hundreds and hundreds had been before this one. I could not believe it when I saw a second faint line. I phoned my best friend and said ‘oh my God, am I pregnant?’ I was just crying and crying and crying, we both were. I then did the other two and sent Iain, who was away on a training camp in Tenerife, a photo of all three before I called him up. It was about 7 in the morning, I was just so happy I struggled to get my words out.”

Jade and Iain, from Ferndown, are now counting down until the day they can meet their 'little miracle' and have shared their story to urge people never to give up.

Jade, who set up an online support group Creating Little Miracles with a friend and is also running a beauty business from home, said: “I have decided to be really open about our journey because it is so important to talk. It was all such a long journey. Some days you do feel like giving up. I remember having to inject my tummy ahead of the IVF and it was black and blue and it hurt so much and I was in tears and Iain felt so helpless.

“But we were both very clear. People are dealt all different hands in life and this was our obstacle but we did get there in the end. Everyone has blessings and everyone has misfortunes, but never never give up because it will happen in the end. I just feel everything we have been through has made us stronger. We can’t wait to meet our little miracle.”