A lesbian couple have spent £13,000 having Danish semen and fertility treatment shipped to their British home so their child will look like a Viking. Kelly and Anna Cooke, both 34, have chosen to buy sperm from Denmark because they want their child to have blonde hair and blue eyes and because British sperm 'doesn't cut the mustard'. The married couple, from Camberley, Surrey, used Kelly's eggs for the insemination after receiving £300-a-time vials of Danish sperm in the post and later successfully conceived via IVF. Anna and Kelly Cooke (right), from Surrey, have chosen to buy sperm from Denmark because they want their child to have blonde hair and blue eyes just like them and because UK sperm 'doesn't cut the mustard' The married couple used Kelly's eggs for the insemination after receiving £300-a-time vials of Danish sperm in the post. Anna is now pregnant and they are expecting their baby in late July . Anna put herself forward to carry the child so that they both had an input into the pregnancy and, after a heart-breaking miscarriage, she is now five months pregnant. Kelly, a buildings manager, said: 'Danish sperm is the best in the world and such high quality. 'British sperm is more than double the price and just doesn't cut the mustard. 'At least with a Dane we knew our baby would be attractive and blonde like us. 'I suppose he would look a bit like a Viking, but we want our son to look like us.' The pair, who got legally married in February, ordered their Danish semen from Cryos International - the world's largest sperm bank which has a motto of: ‘Congratulations, it’s a Viking’. However, after inseminating Anna with four vials of Danish sperm, she had still not fallen pregnant so they forked out £5,000 for a round of IVF treatment. The couple said they chose to go to Denmark to buy the sperm because they wanted their child to look like them - blonde with blue eyes. Both women are naturally blonde, although Anna dyes her hair dark brown . Anna (left) put herself forward to carry the child so that they both had an input into the pregnancy and, after a heart-breaking miscarriage, she is now five months pregnant. The pair are delighted with the results of IVF . Anna shows of her baby bump (left) while partner Kelly (centre) and a friend look on. Right: The couple pictured on their wedding day last year. They said they are 'so pleased' they finally have a baby on the way . That worked but she miscarried, so they spent another £5,000 on IVF and have so far bought ten vials of Dutch sperm. Anna is due to give birth on July 23 but the couple want to keep the sex of their fair-haired baby secret for the time being. Anna, a chef, who dyes her hair brown, said: 'We are just so pleased that after spending £13,000 we finally have a little one on the way. 'It doesn't matter that we have rinsed our savings and scrimped and saved for years to get where we are.' Her partner added: 'With my eggs and Anna carrying the baby, he or she really is ours and we couldn't be happier.' The couple are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their little one, but have chosen to keep the sex a secret for now . Kelly and Anna are among thousands of British women who are flocking to Denmark to buy foreign sperm . Danish sperm now accounts for a third of the total used by British fertility clinics. Women from all over the world are choosing to go Scandinavian when they need a sperm donor, with shortages of homegrown sperm and better service cited as the main reasons for doing so. According to Dr Alan Pacey, a fertility expert at the University of Sheffield, people prefer going abroad because of a lack of British sperm donors. He said: 'We don't have enough donors in the UK to meet the national need. We don't have the clinic infrastructure sufficient to recruit enough donors - even when men want to donate. 'Often there simply isn't the size and scale within small NHS clinics to consider having a donor recruitment programme - plus if you're not confident that sufficient men are going to ring up and become sperm donors, the economics of it simply aren't going to work.' Danish clinic Cryos International – which is the world's largest sperm bank – is also popular because of its customer service, according to experts. Laura Witjens, CEO of the National Gamete Donation Trust, said: 'It's much easier for a British clinic to order sperm from Denmark which is Fed-exed the next day than to try and recruit their own donors and all the hassle that goes with them. 'The Danish model is customer service driven. It knows how to deal well with customers, it has a good website, and that's what we could do in the UK as well - it's not rocket science.' Choice: Denmark's sperm banks, among them Cryos, deploy excellent customer service to help boost sales . Dr Pacey added: 'Denmark is geographically close to the UK. I think there's some sort of philosophical and intellectual bond that we have with Denmark.' Most women flocking to Denmark for sperm are lesbians or single women in their 30s and 40s who do not see why a lack of partner should be a barrier to motherhood. It is only in the past few years that there has been a 'Viking invasion' of Britain, due to changes in the law that banned anonymous sperm donation in Britain, leading to a rapid decline in donors. A British sperm donor has to be prepared for the fact that any resulting child will have the right to trace them at the age of 18. However, Danish sperm donors aren't anonymous and the detail given about the donor is extensive, which is part of the attraction. With a British sperm donor, you get a number and choice of hair colour, while Danish sperm donors offer detail you can imagine including family background, job description, education and pictures of the man as a baby or child. One expert said: 'Donors write personal messages about why they are a donor. You even get to hear their voice.' The Cryos clinic has been running for 25 years and boasts 30,000 babies born worldwide. But a Viking baby doesn't come cheap, with Danish sperm bought over the internet and delivered to an address in Britain costing £460.
Kelly and Anna Cooke have bought sperm from Denmark to get pregnant . They said they ventured abroad as British sperm 'doesn't cut the mustard'
34-year-olds have spent £13,000 on Danish semen and fertility treatment . Anna is now pregnant via IVF using Scandinavian sperm and Kelly's eggs .