UNBORN and under the knife...
Sep 02, 2021
4 minutes
Helena Purcell, 42, Hornchurch
Diving into the swimming pool, I let the cool water envelop me as reality sank in. Can I take any more? I wondered.
An hour earlier, I’d been staring at another negative pregnancy test.
Our seventh failed round of IVF.
‘We’ll get through it,’ my hubby Ian, then 45, told me.
Feeling crushed, I’d gone swimming to clear my head.
I was desperate for a sibling for our son Luca, then aged 2.
But with low egg reserves, it’d taken three years and endless hormone tablets and injections to have him.
Now we’d spent more
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