The pregnant widow of an Australian snowboarding champion wants emergency first responders to tell grieving relatives how to save their dead partner's sperm.
Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin, 32, drowned in shallow water while spearfishing at Palm Beach on Queensland's Gold Coast on July 8, 2020.
Within hours of his death, his partner Ellidy Pullin - who changed her name from Vlug to Chumpy's surname in recent weeks - organised IVF specialists to harvest his sperm.
Pregnant widow Ellidy Pullin (pictured) of Australian snowboarding champion Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin wants first responders to tell grieving relatives how to save their dead partner's sperm
The couple had been trying for a child together in the lead up to the tragic accident and were able to fast track the process once she realised it was possible.
Ms Pullin, 29, is now pregnant with his child through IVF, one year after he died, and due to give birth in October.
But the model says paramedics and police must be trained to advise devastated spouses of the possibilities of post humous sperm retrieval as early as possible.
There is only a 24 to 36 hour window where medics can perform the procedure after death and it requires legal paperwork to be completed before it can begin.
Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin, 32, pictured here withe partner Ellidy, drowned in shallow water while spearfishing at Palm Beach on Queensland's Gold Coast on July 8, 2020
But Ms Pullin said instead of being told of the IVF options available to her, she was being asked about the state of their relationship and their movements that day.
'I was explaining to them how we had the most perfect life in the world, we were trying for a baby, nothing could have been better in our life,' Ms Pullin revealed in her podcast, Darling, Shine!
'I think that they should have the knowledge to say, "Oh my God, you were trying for a baby? Do you know that if you act really crucially in the next 24 hours, 36 hours, you can actually retrieve his sperm?"
'I think that would have been really important knowledge.'
Ellidy and Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin (pictured) loved spending time together at the beach on the Gold Coast
She added: 'I’ve said this to a few people, I just think the police officers, the ambulance officers and stuff on the day (of the tragedy), I think it should have almost been something that they said to us that day.'
Podcast co-host Chloe Fisher, wife of international DJ Paul Fisher, said family and friends rang around five different IVF clinics until they
