TWO BABIES BUT I ONLY GAVE BIRTH TO ONE
Aug 23, 2022
4 minutes
*NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED. WORDS: LUCY LAING, ASHLEIGH PAGE
Clutching my husband Ryan’s hand, I listened in disbelief as the doctor explained I had cervical cancer and would need chemotherapy. But it was the next words that really made my head spin – the treatment could possibly leave me infertile. In an instant, my dreams of being a mum were swept away. I was only 36.
It was January 2012 and Ryan, then 36, and I had been married for just over a year and were desperate to be parents.
Only now, we were forced to put those plans on hold as I was booked in for three rounds of chemotherapy and then a radical trachelectomy, where the cervix is removed
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