'I used Babydust to choose the sex of my child like Danielle Lloyd – and it worked'

Last November, ex-glamour model and footballer’s wife Danielle Lloyd gave birth to a baby girl, Autumn Rose.The celebrity mum-of-five was desperate to conceive a girl after sharing “four boys is hard work.” To make her baby girl dreams a reality, she decided to use The Babydust Method with her husband Michael O'Neill. Amy Walker, 36, used the same method to try for a boy after having four girls. She lives in Folkestone, Kent, with her plumber husband John, 37, daughters Abigail, 16, Isabelle, 14, Olivia, 10, Amelia, four, and one-year-old son Teddy.

Here, mum Amy shares her rollercoaster journey... Clutching the confetti-filled balloon, I walked through the front door to be greeted by our four daughters, who were waiting excitedly for us to get home from the baby scan. When they saw the balloon was filled with blue confetti, they jumped up and down with joy.

At last, they were getting the brother they had hoped for. John and I were excited, too, but also amazed that the Babydust Method we’d tried had actually worked – I’d conceived a boy. I didn’t grow up wanting a big family.

I wasn’t even sure I wanted children. But soon after meeting John when I was 18, I had a miscarriage. Losing a baby was heartbreaking, but it made me realise I did want children and a year later, when I was 19, our daughter Abigail was born.

We loved being parents and wanted more babies. I was lucky enough to have Isabelle in 2007, followed by Olivia in 2011. Stillbirth tragedy Having three girls was great, but John and I both longed for a son too.