Channel 7 star Erin Holland and cricketer Ben Cutting welcome first child after 20 rounds of IVF

Model and TV presenter Erin Holland has welcomed her first child with Australian cricketer Ben Cutting.

After years of fertility struggles, the couple shared the miracle news on Friday, announcing their baby girl had arrived safely on August 18.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Erin Holland and Ben Cutting welcome first child after IVF journey

The Instagram post included intimate photos of the new family-of-three.

“All of the sudden, it all makes sense. It was always you,” Holland captioned the carousel of images.

The Channel 7 star has been open about her difficult path to motherhood, previously revealing the couple had endured 20 rounds of IVF, five egg collections, seven transfers, four miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy .

“I think the hard part about infertility and pregnancy loss is that beautiful naivety of just seeing a double line on a pregnancy test is robbed from you because the first time you do it, it’s elation, it’s so exciting,” Holland told the Something To Talk About podcast in May.

“Then the second time you do it, you’re cautiously excited. By the third and the fourth time, you think it’s catfishing you.”

On the episode, Holland also detailed the financial toll her fertility journey had taken on her and Cutting.

“I added it up, and it’s horrible,” she said of the amount the couple has spent on trying to fall pregnant.

“It’s a house deposit. We’ve spent $150,000, which is worth every penny if it works out, but so often it doesn’t.”

Cutting and Holland learned soon after their February 2021 wedding that IVF was their “only real option to have a baby” but the process has proved challenging on several fronts.

Holland first opened up on the IVF process in 2022 when the first round resulted in “nothing viable”.

“As someone who went in just wanting to freeze embryos until the time was ‘right’, I’ve grappled with the confusing feelings of the loss of any ‘normality’ of this process, feeling like the universe was telling me I’m not meant to be a mother,” she said at the time.