Tana Ramsay Opens Up About IVF, Says Sons Jesse and Oscar ‘Are Nearly Like Twins’

Tana Ramsay would not shrink back from sharing the ups and downs of motherhood.

The cookbook writer and her husband Gordon Ramsay share children Megan, 26, twins Jack and Holly, 24, Matilda “Tilly,” 22, Oscar, 5, and Jesse, 8 months. Throughout an episode of the podcast Postcards from Midlife with Lorraine Sweet and Trish Halpin, Tana, 49, opened up about her pregnancies and expertise with in vitro fertilization (IVF).

“I feel the necessary factor to say is it’s a bit like breastfeeding. No two is ever the identical,” Tana stated when requested about welcoming a child at 48. “I don’t suppose it’s essentially all the time to do with age.”

When she had her first little one, Tana stated it was a really “simple being pregnant,” however welcoming the twins was “difficult.”

“I had a thrombosis once I was pregnant and began bleeding at about 14 weeks, in order that was very scary. Then Tilly got here alongside, and he or she was my solely pure being pregnant the place I obtained pregnant and didn’t notice,” she defined to Sweet and Halpin. “Actually, I used to be practically 4 and a half months pregnant earlier than I spotted.” 

In 2016, earlier than she had Oscar, Tana skilled a miscarriage along with her son Rocky at 20 weeks. “Born with a powerful heartbeat however too little to outlive,” she beforehand shared.

Now on the podcast she stated, “Naturally, as you become old, you are worried extra. Once I obtained pregnant with Rocky, that was all going swimmingly, and I assumed ‘I’m going to train all through,’ after which all of it, after all, went terribly flawed.”

“Oscar’s being pregnant was truly – I had one or two scares, nevertheless it was very simple,” she stated. “After you’ve had any form of scare, it makes you paranoid…I used to be extra cautious; power ranges had been good.”

Tana, who has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, utilized IVF to get pregnant with Oscar. She shared a candy tidbit about how Oscar and her youngest, Jesse, had been linked even years earlier than Jesse was born in November 2023. 

“Once I had IVF once I obtained pregnant with Oscar, they type of verify every little thing then, went via the egg assortment — Jesse is definitely a frozen embryo from then. He was our little frosty embryo. He and Oscar are virtually twins as a result of they had been the identical assortment,” she stated. 

After the loss their household skilled with Rocky, Tana stated she and Gordon, 57, discover a lot happiness with their youngest child. 

“There’s a little bit of Rocky in Jesse and it’s form of made us all really feel entire once more,” she stated. 

Whereas parenting six children with such huge age variations will not be the commonest, Tana stated she wouldn’t have it another approach.

“I’ve been the youngest mum on the faculty gate and I’m clearly now the oldest, however I don’t suppose it stands out. There’s lots of older mums and, truly, I feel we’re all a bit calmer,” she stated. 

Studying to not “overparent” has additionally been key as they welcomed extra youngsters in center age, Tana added. Gordon spoke with PEOPLE in Could and echoed his spouse’s sentiment. 

“I feel I am a greater dad the second time spherical, if I am sincere,” he stated on the time. “Tana’s all the time been a tremendous mother. However I feel, if I needed to self critique, I do know I am higher as a result of I’ve obtained expertise now.”

And the knowledge he’s garnered through the years has positively not gone unnoticed by Tana.

“I take a look at the way in which the kids take a look at him. I couldn’t ask for a greater daddy,” Tana stated on Postcards from Midlife. “That’s the unhealthy occasions in addition to the great occasions which have made that occur.”