Nicola Adams is expecting a baby with her girlfriend

<h4><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Olympic boxer&comma; Nicola Adams has taken to social media to announce that she is expecting her first child with her girlfriend Ella Baig&period; <&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-19402 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thedailypage&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;02&sol;skynews-ella-baig-nicola-adams&lowbar;5676633&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Nicola Adams" width&equals;"2048" height&equals;"1152" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Adams&comma; 39&comma; took to a popular micro-blogging platform&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;NicolaAdamsOBE&sol;status&sol;1494302111819042816&quest;s&equals;20&amp&semi;t&equals;p10yx2tfk4u1qvHRUL-T8A">Twitter<&sol;a> where she shared a photo of her first child in an ultrasound scan&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">According to her&comma; she was &&num;8220&semi;so excited&&num;8221&semi; her family was growing&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;We’re so excited to announce that our family is expanding &quest;&quest;<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">After what feels like a lifetime&comma; we can finally say we’re going to be parents&excl;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">We’re so excited to share this magical journey with you all&comma;the ups&comma;the downs everything in between&quest;<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Welcome to the world little one &quest;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she tweeted&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;NicolaAdamsOBE&sol;status&sol;1494302111819042816&quest;s&equals;20&&num;038&semi;t&equals;p10yx2tfk4u1qvHRUL-T8A<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">Adams who became the first woman to win a boxing Olympic medal in 2012 opened up about her concerns about trying to conceive as a same-sex couple&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;I think there&&num;8217&semi;s still a stigma attached to the IVF process and&comma; for same-sex couples&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s an additional layer of complexity&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Nicola Adams said&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;All of this needs to be spoken about more widely&period; People need to be educated about this process so that they&&num;8217&semi;re not going into it completely blind&period; The information is out there but we really had to dig for it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;