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A woman who experienced 13 heartbreaking miscarriages shared her joy after giving birth to a baby girl.
Laura Worsley tragically lost 11 of her unborn children in the first trimester and two boys – Graceson and Leo – at 17 and 20 weeks.
The 35-year-old woman said she did not know how she got away from it and felt she had lost years of her life.
Professor Siobhan Quenby found that Laura suffered from two health problems that prevented her from having children.
But after pioneering the work of the fertility expert, she and her husband Dave have their daughter whom they named Ivy.
"I'm looking at it and I think there are miracles," said Laura, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, at the BBC.
"I knew the miracles of other people and now I have mine."
The mother added, "Even now, nine months later, I can not believe she's really mine."
Laura and Dave suffered their first miscarriage in 2008 and said that they knew something was wrong when it happened for the third time.
After the fourth miscarriage, the couple was referred to Professor Quenby of Coventry University Hospital and the Warwickshire Biomedical Research Unit.
Laura was told that she had antiphospholipid syndrome, an immune system disorder that causes an increase in the number of blood clots and may increase the risk of miscarriage in pregnant women.
She and Dave took part in tests, did tests and took medicine in the hope that something would work.
After testing Leo's placenta, it was also discovered that Laura was suffering from chronic histiocytic intervillositis (CHI), which was supposed to induce the body to fight pregnancy.
Laura said that her condition was causing her "death" in places.
She took medicine to improve the uterine lining and the couple conceived naturally for the 14th time – thinking it would be their last try.
Laura has been given steroids to suppress her immune system and medications to stop her blood clotting.
And at 30 weeks, Laura's waters broke and little Ivy gave birth by caesarean section, weighing just 1.7lbs.
Ivy was taken directly to the intensive care unit and three days pbaded before the new parents withdrew her but they say she was a fighter and that she continued to progress.
At 11 weeks, Ivy was finally able to go home and she is now nine months old.
Laura's story is told to give hope to women, with their condition, that they could still have successful pregnancies.
The couple raised more than £ 1,000 by organizing a baby shower in Ivy and donating it to the charity of the hospital.
source: mirror.co.uk
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