Reader diagnosed with cancer reveals grief when her son died in childbirth

A newspaper reader diagnosed with cancer after losing her father revealed her grief after the death of her baby in childbirth.

Maria Gaban, a radio reporter in Adelaide, lost her father as a result of cancer at the age of 19.

In 2017, her second son and her husband Alastair died in childbirth.

During her mourning, the 38-year-old woman quickly became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy little girl, Trinity. But then she suffered another blow.

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Maria Gaban, a journalist from Adelaide, told her heartbreaking story after a year of grief

Maria Gaban, a journalist from Adelaide (pictured right) says that her husband, Alastair Gaban (pictured left), has been his biggest supporter over the past year.

The mother of two children noticed a lump in her bad about seven weeks after giving birth to her daughter.

The doctors told him that the mbad was full of milk and that she would leave.

But four months later, the mbad was still there.

Ms. Gaban went back to the doctors for a mammogram, to which she learned that she had cancer.

"I just did not think it was happening, I almost felt like curling up on the chair I was sitting on and I felt as small as a pea." She told Adelaide Now.

She said her first idea was whether she would live long enough to take her children to school.

Her emotional story made others cry when she told her story on the Mix102.3 radio show on Monday.

During the show, she revealed that her greatest fear was not to see her children grow up.

"I have a five-month-old child in my hands, we just got out of this horrible loss (of Julius's son) and now I am facing bad cancer. I did not have children not to raise them. I want to be there for every scream and every step.

She said the most difficult part of her ordeal was losing her son.

"The worst and the most traumatic thing in all of this was losing Julius, I'm still here to fight but our son did not have that chance, he was not allowed to cry, breathe or whatever, "she said.

Once a 6 cm tumor was removed from her bad, Ms. Gaban was declared without cancer.

But because she lost her father to bowel cancer at the age of 19, she opted for chemotherapy as a precaution.

She returned to work at Mix 102.3 part-time Monday, a week after the start of her last cycle of chemotherapy.

She is now urging others to check if something is wrong.

Maria Gaban and her husband Alastair (both pictured) endured a year of heartbreak, lost their son and were later diagnosed with cancer.