For 11 years this couple had been trying to have a child and the miscarriages followed. Eventually, through in vitro fertilization, they became parents. The birth of this rainbow baby is their greatest happiness.
According to The Lancet study, 23 million miscarriages occur each year worldwide. About one in four pregnancies end in a miscarriage and about one in three women will have a miscarriage in their lifetime either about 15% of total pregnancies. This represents approximately “44 pregnancies lost every minute”. 10.8% of women have had a miscarriage. Recurrent miscarriages are much less common: 1.9% of women did two and 0.7% did three.
British couple Gina Mcguinness, 37, and Simon Crowe, 39, have had a touching and trying story. For eleven years, they had been trying to have a child. The couple experienced fourteen miscarriages before attempting medically assisted reproduction (ART). It is finally after eleven years that he will have welcomed a little girl, Lola, on December 12, 2021 at the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough (United Kingdom).
Repeated miscarriages
Unfortunately, Gina is one of the rare people to have had more than 3 miscarriages. The couple began baby trials in 2010. That year, the Briton experienced an ectopic pregnancy, or ectopic pregnancy. An egg was successfully fertilized, but it implanted outside her uterus. The only result of this pregnancy was that she lost one of her two fallopian tubes …
The nightmare only begins for Gina and Simon who, over the next six years, still experience thirteen miscarriages. In 2016, the couple conceived a baby again, but the pregnancy was still ectopic and the Englishwoman lost her second fallopian tube. “Every time I had a positive pregnancy test I knew it would end badly“, she confides. During all these years, she carried out numerous medical examinations to understand the cause of her recurrent miscarriages, without ever being found an explanation.
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A successful In Vitro fertilization
As Gina no longer has her fallopian tubes, which connect the ovaries to the uterus, the couple have no choice but to turn to assisted reproduction. He then begins to save for in vitro fertilization (IVF), which has been postponed twice because of the Covid-19 pandemic. When the procedure finally took place, only one of the two oocytes retrieved was successfully fertilized, leaving the couple only one chance of success.
And it worked with great success! “I knew that one day we would have our little rainbow baby. I never gave up “, says Gina. However, her pregnancy was not easy: at 16 weeks, she contracted Covid-19 and was hospitalized. Fortunately, there were no complications and her daughter was born very healthy! “She is perfect, absolutely beautiful“, she adds.