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We’ve got our hands full!

Virginia Johnson, 38

With a sorrowful shake of the doctor’s head, I felt my dreams fade.

‘It’s not good news,’ he said to me and my husband Victor.

It was October 2013 and a scan had revealed that I’d suffered a dangerous ectopic pregnancy, meaning the embryo was growing outside my womb.

A termination was the only way to spare my life.

Victor, then 41, and I had both had our hearts set on parenthood

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