UK Mother Has ‘Miracle Baby’ After 15 Years and 13 Miscarriages

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <section class="entry" style="position: relative;"><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 1px 1px inset; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 0px 1px 1px inset; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 1px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 625px;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><img alt="Haider Zaman with his son Awais Haider" height="409" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4104954.ece/alternates/s615/Haider-Zaman-with-his-son-Awais-Haider.jpg" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 4px 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="615" /></span></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Awais Haider’s parents have endured 13 miscarriages in 15 years before he was born.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A UK woman is now the proud mother of a baby boy after 15 years of waiting and 13 miscarriages.</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Mirror <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/miracle-baby-dream-come-true-4104950" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports that</a> <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ayshia</strong> miscarried time and again between six and 12 weeks into her pregnancy.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But thanks to pioneering work by staff at Heartlands Hospital’s recurrent miscarriage clinic, the 33-year-old at last held the child she’d yearned so long for – a healthy, six pound baby boy.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ayshia told news reporters that:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“There are no words to express the feelings going through my mind. It was a dream come true.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I went through the pregnancy spending every day just hoping my dream wouldn’t be shattered.”</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Specialists believed that Ayshia’s problems stemmed from ‘sticky’ blood cells, which caused clots to occur. Ayshia would lose blood, triggering a miscarriage.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Led by specialist <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor Siobhan Quenby</strong>, the medical team at the hospital used drugs to increase blood flow around the womb.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They introduced an intensive drug and steroid regime that freed blood flow around the womb, allowing Awais to develop inside his mother.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ayshia was given steroid prednisolone, progesterone and injections of clexane. On July 10, Ayshia gave birth by caesarean section at Heartlands in Birmingham.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“After years of waiting, my dream has finally come true, and in the month of Ramadan, which makes it an extra special birth date. I feel like all my Eids have come at once.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“After conceiving naturally, I was devastated to miscarry and each time was emotionally and psychologically hard. My family and friends had lost hope.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“As my husband was his mother’s only son, I felt an additional pressure to carry on the family name. I took a two–year rest gap and then plucked up courage for the 14th time. I felt it was my last chance and my last hope.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It was one of the hardest nine months of my life, as always at the back of my mind was the thought, what if it went wrong again? And if I did that I would feel like a failure. Every scan appointment was daunting.”</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She added:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When I gave birth, it was a joyful, yet upsetting time as my husband’s parents passed away before getting to see their first grandchild.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“However, words can’t explain how I felt when I had the baby. It’s still not sunk in that I have a baby. I would say to anyone in similar circumstances to never give up hope and that dreams can come true.”</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recurrent miscarriage midwife Rachel Small said:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I am delighted for Mr and Mrs Zaman and her family on the birth of their son. It was a privilege to take care of her through her journey.”</span></div> </blockquote> </section></div>

UK Mother Has ‘Miracle Baby’ After 15 Years and 13 Miscarriages

Awais Haider’s parents have endured 13 miscarriages in 15 years before he was born. A UK woman is now the proud mother of a baby boy...

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