When Louise met her husband Mark in 1999, she instantly knew she wanted to start a family with him.
It was Louise’s dream to have a baby, and they started trying when she was 32. But due to Mark’s vasectomy, they needed to find other ways to conceive.
Louise and Mark spent upwards of $100,000 on sperm donors and countless rounds of IVF over the span of 16 years. But every time Louise fell pregnant and got her hopes up, she ended up losing the baby. This happened 18 devastating times.
“It was a complete mystery why my body kept rejecting my baby at just a few weeks old, but it was heart-breaking every single time,” she said.
In 2010, Louise gave up. But years later, she decided to try one final time before her 50th birthday. That’s when she finally found a doctor who discovered she had “killer cells” that were destroying her embryos.
On her very last try, Louise and Mark finally got pregnant when Louise was 47 years old. Incredibly, baby William was born healthy at 37 weeks.
Although strangers often mistake Louise and Mark for William’s grandparents, they are elated to have a child of their own.
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