史上最倔强母亲 十年万里求医终得子

　　As Rachael Sadler cradles her twin daughters she can hardly believe she is holding them。

　　It has taken Mrs Sadler and her husband £70,000, nine cycles of fertility treatment and a distance of 16,000 miles to have their baby daughters。

　　Their journey began after Mrs Sadler found she can't get pregnant。

　　Mrs Sadler, 35 , met her husband Mark, 40, in 1997 and the couple were married five years later。

　　They immediately started trying for a family after their wedding but nothing had happened after six months。

　　"I hadn’t expected to get pregnant straight away, but when nothing had happened after six months I went to see the doctor. But he said it was nothing to worry about and to keep trying, so that’s what we did，" said Ms Sadler。

　　But two years later, Mrs Sadler still hadn’t fallen pregnant, so they both underwent tests at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry. Doctors told them they couldn’t find anything wrong。

　　Mrs Sadler was convinced that something must be wrong, so they tried their luck in Los Angeles. Because they thought the fertility techniques may be more advanced over in Los Angeles。

　　After the 5,500 mile move, the couple visited experts at California and they tried four cycles of artificial insemination, but none of those worked。

　　Then they underwent three courses of IVF treatment, but again that didn’t work。

　　Mrs Sadler said: “More tests were carried out and they found that I had the killer cells in my uterus, which was unusual. So my babies were being attacked from all angles. ”

　　"Another problem was identified too, which meant that my body was in effect allergic to my husband. It was attacking his DNA cells in our babies."

　　Then the couple travelled to Mexico for Lymphocyte Immunisation Therapy, to inject Mr Sadler’s white blood cells into his wife’s body。

　　After a fourth course of IVF in December 2008, and to their delight, Mrs Sadler was finally pregnant with identical twins。

　　But then tragedy struck at 14 weeks when doctors discovered the twins umbilical cords had become tangled, cutting of each other’s blood supply, causing them both to die in the womb。

　　After their loss, the couple decided to come back to the UK to try more fertility treatment. They visited Care Fertility at Nottingham, and expert George Nwadke said he could help them。

　　Mrs Sadler was given more treatment to reduce the number of killer cells in her body, and then they underwent their fifth course of IVF treatment in April last year。

　　Two embryos were put back into her womb and six weeks later she discovered she was again pregnant with twins. Luckily her pregnancy went smoothly and her twins daughters were born in December at Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry。

　　She said:"It was the most amazing moment in my life when I finally held them in my arms and I was a mum at last."