Get Pregnant Naturally Against The Odds
I'm always finding amazing stories of women who become pregnant naturally even with supposedly unbeatable odds. When I ran an infertility support group, there was a woman there in her 40's who had to discontinue fertility treatments to undergo chemotherapy when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.For more fertility after 40 resources, visit: www.getpregnantover40.com
This article is about a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer after her second IVF cycle ended in miscarriage. Instead of working on having a baby, she had to undergo chemotherapy and radiation to save her life. Due to the hormonal nature of her cancer, another IVF was out of the question. But then, fate stepped in. I know you can guess the ending this story - yep she got pregnant naturally and now has two children. Read more:
The devastated couple decided they wouldn’t give up hope and started to plan for another round of IVF in January 2004. But just a month before the treatment was due to begin, Gail discovered a lump in her breast.
“It was an aggressive stage three cancer which had already spread to my lymph nodes,” said Gail, 38.
“When they found out we were planning on IVF they rang us and said we would be unable to go ahead with it.
“It was a terrible year, first losing the baby then being diagnosed with cancer. The fear you get is horrendous.
“The whole of 2004 was spent having treatment. I had 18 sessions of chemotherapy and it was very difficult at times, trying to keep everything as normal as possible for Amy who was only three at the time.”
Gail’s chemotherapy ended in the July and she then went through five weeks of radiotherapy. She was told as the cancer was hormonal, they could have no further IVF in case it caused the disease to return.
“We spoke to a geneticist about the chances of having a baby and we were told it just wasn’t going to happen.
“We had wanted another child but always said that it was more important that Amy has her mummy, rather than a sibling.
“We had been through a lot and we put it to rest and settled on being a family of three - we were very happy with that.”
In November last year, Gail began to feel unwell.
“I started to worry that the cancer was returning,” she said. “I went to the hospital for a scan, worrying that it may be ovarian cancer.
“After all we had gone through, it was terrifying. But as they did the scan, the radiographer looked at me and said they had not found cancer, they had found a heartbeat!”
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(www.gazettelive.co.uk)