foetuses would look like. I later agreed to see them and the midwife brought them to myself and my husband. They were perfect. They looked like they were asleep in her arms. Perfect right down to their eyelashes; if only women could see them, I am sure they could never take their lives.
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I was only 7 weeks pregnant when I had a termination many years ago, but the trauma and nightmare are still with me. The damages mentally and physically are awful, but no one bothered to tell me the facts and that it could affect my chances of having a normal pregnancy, that I would eventually need another operation so that I would stop losing babies. Thankfully I now have three beautiful children but the horror will be with me always.
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I had an abortion which nearly destroyed me and that was 8 years ago. I was an older mother and therefore high risk. I panicked a bit as I already had three children and had heard that older mothers have more disabled babies. The doctors all encouraged me to have the abortion and no one told me what could happen. I became very depressed and thought another child might help but as it turns out both my tubes were blocked as a result of that abortion. I think that women should be told that some people never get over an abortion.
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The memory of my abortion nearly three years ago was until six months ago with me every day - destroying my life and eroding my marriage. My husband agreed to have another baby and now I am six months pregnant and we are both overjoyed. My fourth pregnancy was a result of contraceptive failure and while I did not want the child nor did I want an abortion. For my husband it was the only solution. We are not poor but we had plans into which another mouth to feed did not fit. With his decision and my GP's assurances that it would go through 'on the nod' I agreed. The abortion was the most lonely dreadful experience of my life. I cried every day