Couple underwent seven rounds of IVF and had three miscarriages. Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie and his wife Georgie have opened up about suffering years of failed IVF treatments and miscarriages. In a new interview, the pair recalled the devastation that came with seven years of unsuccessful IVF treatments when trying to conceive their two children.
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When the pair tried to start a family after they wed in 2014, both aged 37, they found out they had “unexplained” infertility. Their first round of IVF gave them their first child, a girl named Bellatrix, born in 2016, but the same IVF success was never repeated when it came to having a second child.
Georgie underwent seven rounds of IVF and had three miscarriages, losing a child at eight weeks, twelve weeks and fourteen weeks. IVF – or in vitro fertilisation – is when an egg is removed from a woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilised egg is then returned to the woman’s womb to develop.
She said: “I remember being at the Science Museum, hosting something, and being in the loo moments before, injecting myself with hormones.”. “I know IVF rounds shouldn’t merge into one another, but over a period of three years, they did. You never let yourself come off that treadmill because you think, ‘If I step off it to recover, I’ll never want to put myself back on it again.’ You are always thinking, ‘It will happen next time.’”.
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