Truly heartbreaking..Read this sad story of a cancer survivor who lost 22 children and miscarried 16 times

Piece by: Caren Nyota
Lifestyle

Kerry Hutchinson has buried three of her babies, held funerals for two, miscarried 16 and has just lost her 22nd child. But doctors say she is healthy - just 'very unlucky'.

Kerry has always dreamed of becoming a mother and has suffered a lifetime of grief and heartache as she desperately strives for a baby.

Due to the fact that Kerry had suffered three losses in the second trimester, she was given a trans-abdominal stitch to help prevent pregnancy loss.

'I was only the sixteenth person in the country to have one,' she says.

'I hadn't been getting pregnant for a while because my body was doing lots of different crazy things.

'But me and my fiance went to the IVF clinic, and by some miracle I'd managed to get pregnant.'

Everything had been going 'brilliantly' according to the midwives and doctors, and they'd seen their baby's heartbeat on four different scans. '

'I'd gone in on Monday March 5, as a normal scan date, to be signed off to a different hospital,' recalls Kerry.

'Eleven weeks was the furthest we'd got in four years - but when we got there the baby had no heartbeat. I was admitted to hospital and they tried for three days straight to induce me, but the baby wouldn't come out.'

Kerry and partner Connell are now sadly planning what will be Kerry's fourth baby burial. Despite all the trauma and heartbreak she has been through, she refuses to give up her fight for a baby.

'I will be a mum on this earth one way or another,' she insists.

Kerry still cherishes the dream of becoming a mother - and has shared her story to show there is always hope.

'Rather than sitting in bed in the hospital, feeling sorry about something I couldn't change, we set up a web page,' she says.

'It's called Kerry's dream.'

The Facebook page was launched to raise awareness, and in the hope of helping to fund that dream.

'I want people to know there's people out there who can help,' says Kerry.

'You just have to find them - and that's what I'm trying to do.'

Having had all the tests possible on the NHS, Kerry is hopeful that an immune test by a reproductive specialist in London will give her some answers and the chance of finally becoming a mother.

'I need to know why all these babies have died,' she says. 'I grew up in care myself so family is very important to me - it's something I've always wanted to have.'

A JustGiving page was set up by a close friend of Kerry's who said: 'Losing one beautiful angel may be unlucky, but over 20 needs answers.

'Let's raise enough money to fund appointments, and possibly the need for IVF, so that Kerry and Connell can get the answers they deserve.'

Credits: Daily Mail