Heartbroken mum who has lost TWENTY-TWO babies reveals her agony but vows ‘one day I will be a mum’
Kerry Hutchinson, 35 from Rugeley, has buried three of her babies, held funerals for two, miscarried sixteen and has just lost her twenty-second child
A HEARTBROKEN mum has spoken of her agony of losing TWENTY TWO babies - but has vowed she will become a mum.
Kerry Hutchinson, 35 from Rugeley, in Staffordshire, has buried three of her babies, held funerals for two, miscarried sixteen and has just lost her twenty-second child. But doctors say she is healthy – just “very unlucky”.
Kerry has suffered a lifetime of grief and heartache as she desperately strives for a baby, and told Birmingham Live she "needs answers as to why her babies have died."
To her fury, one doctor’s letter read: “I note you have been unlucky.”
Having held her first born girl in her arms for 12 hours before she died, the hope of what may seem to be an unreachable dream has never left Kerry.
The ex-model and cleaner always longed for a family of her own – and losing her first daughter, Paige, only made her desire for a child grow stronger. “She was a little dot, just 2lb 2oz,” recalls Kerry.
At a post-natal check, doctors investigating the death of Paige found that Kerry had cervical cancer, and removed most of her cervix.
Doctors told Kerry to keep trying for another baby, but warned a reduced cervix would start dilating early as the foetus grew to a certain weight and any babies would be born prematurely.
She suffered several miscarriages while trying for another baby but was told by doctors that there was nothing wrong.
“We kept trying for a baby but I just kept losing them early on,” she says.
“There was a little boy next, but he died in my womb in the second trimester.”
Fertility treatment was the next option for the couple, and proved successful at first but when baby Lucas was born at just 22 weeks, doctors could do nothing to save him.
“He took a few breaths and then he passed away,” said Kerry. “It broke my heart. I was devastated. I didn’t expect to bury a third child."
As Kerry had suffered three losses in the second trimester, she was given a trans-abdominal stitch to help prevent pregnancy loss and later became pregnant through IVF.
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 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.”
Kerry and partner Connell are now planning a fourth baby burial, but despite all the 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, 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 Facebook page called,” she says.
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“I want people to know there’s people out there who can help,” says Kerry.
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.”
Kerry's friend set up a to raise enough money to fund appointments, and possibly the need for IVF, so that "Kerry and Connell can get the answers they deserve."
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