After Three Lost Babies, I've Finally Heard a Little Heartbeat. So Dare I Start to Dream?
Daily Mail › September 27, 2007
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FOLLOWING five gruelling cycles of IVF and three miscarriages, 42- year-old writer LOUISE JANSON, single and desperate to be a mum, is now 20 weeks pregnant. In her latest dispatch from the fertility frontline, she dares to wonder if three years of trauma and longing might finally be over.
YOU haven't got a baby inside you, says the pretty, young ultrasonographer, sliding her probe over my gelled belly and scrutinising the monitor in front of her, as my blood turned to ice, my heart plummeted into my guts and my sister and I clutched hands in terror.See the full content of this document
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After Three Lost Babies, I've Finally Heard a Little Heartbeat. So Dare I Start to Dream?
'You've got a little cat!' she laughed.
'Look at how curled up he is! Come audience. I'd been dreading this on, little kitty, show me your paws I need to count your fingers.' As an opening gambit, delivered to a forty-something woman still traumatised by the loss of five embryos conc...See the full content of this document
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