{"id":18563,"date":"2022-06-11T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=18563"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:28:55","slug":"1-million-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/11\/1-million-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31 million lottery win enabled one\u2019s daughter to give birth to their grandchildren.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jeff and Davina Pritchard of Carmarthen, Wales, won the lottery and used the money to help their daughter&#8217;s dream of becoming a mother after she struggled to conceive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple who won \u00a31 million in the lottery spent their winnings on the birth of two new grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When their daughter Claire was unable to conceive, Jeff and Davinia Pritchard stepped in with their chequebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claire was over 20 stone at the time, so Jeff and Davinia used their winnings to fund private gastric surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She lost ten stone and became pregnant shortly after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She now has two children, Lillie, two, and Emrys, 11 months. Obesity can lower your chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When we won, we wanted to share our joy with our family, and that&#8217;s exactly what we did.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claire, 39, and Jonathan, 49, a retail worker, announced their 2019 pregnancy on Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I put the baby scan picture in the Mother&#8217;s Day card,&#8221; she explained. There were many tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We had given up on having children,&#8221; she added. 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