An “infertile” woman who claims she was dumped by her ex when she revealed she couldn’t have children has got pregnant after trying for 10 years.
Eleanor Copperthwaite was so surprised by the news she took 20 tests just to make sure.
The 31-year-old has irreparable trauma to her organs after appendix surgery as a child and doctors said she’d never have kids of her own.
Eleanor said an ex even split up with her when she told him she was infertile and she accepted she’d never have children with now-husband Jason, 43, after two failed IVF attempts.
But when she felt sick and started having odd dreams a friend said she should take a test – and the pair discovered she was pregnant.
Eleanor, from Petersfield, Hampshire, said: “I couldn’t believe it when I found out I was pregnant – I did like 20 tests to make sure, and then used a digital test to spell it out to me.
“I told my husband when I’d done the digital test, which said I was three to four weeks pregnant, but I didn’t really believe it myself until I got the scan, nine weeks in.
“I was always told from a young age I wouldn’t be able to have children, because I had life saving surgery on my appendix when I was five.
“The surgery on my appendix was very serious – I had a really big cyst – and I was in hospital for five weeks and my parents didn’t know if I was going to live or die.
“An ex boyfriend even left me when he realised I wouldn’t be able to have children.
“Obviously I was heartbroken about that.”
Eleanor finally gave birth to miracle baby Charlie in May 2017.
She said: “I wouldn’t change anything that’s happened because now I know that it was all meant to be.
“Me and my husband had been trying for 10 years and our son made us so happy. I would love to let other women know that miracles can happen.”
Eleanor’s organs didn’t grow back properly after the large operation she had as a child and she has had surgery every year since she was 18 to re-build her organs.
A reproductive specialist said she would never be able to have children, and she tried IVF eggshare in 2012 and 2013, which didn’t work.
“That was a totally bittersweet experience, because while I was so happy for the women who I gave my eggs to, I was heartbroken when it didn’t work for me,” she said.
“It was like I had to give up hope completely for it to actually work. People say that, and you don’t believe them, but it’s true.
“When I started having weird dreams and feeling sick, my friend suggested that I might be pregnant.
“I thought, ‘No way, I can’t be, that doesn’t make sense.’ It was the first time I’ve ever felt that way though and so I did a pregnancy test – for the first time ever.
“And I just didn’t believe it.
“I was really shocked that it had happened, but it was a really special time. The pregnancy was magical, it was amazing to feel the baby move for the first time.”
She had a traumatic birth, losing five pints of blood and her placenta ruptured before the birth.
Eleanor said that she and husband Jason, 43, who is disabled and unable to work, will be showering Charlie with celebratory balloons next month, when he turns one year old.
Mirror- UK
