I had a less than one per cent chance of conceiving because I was on the coil and have a single ovary - but now I have TWINS
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A woman with one ovary who had a 'less than one per cent' chance of conceiving while on the coil was shocked to discover she was pregnant - with twins. Lindsay Green, 43, from Hull, East Yorkshire, was working a busy 13-hour shift as a trainee nursing associate when she suddenly noticed she was bleeding.
![[She was left 'totally shocked' when tests revealed that she was five months pregnant with twins while using the contraceptive coil]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/09/93639615-14241127-image-a-10_1735723299646.jpg)
She'd had her fallopian tube and ovary removed the year before after being diagnosed with an ovarian tumour. Fearing that it had grown back, the mother-of-five rushed down to her colleagues in the A&E department for a scan. She was left 'totally shocked' when tests revealed that she was five months pregnant with twins while using the contraceptive coil.
![[Despite children 'not being on the cards', the couple were over the moon when their miracle twins, Eloise and Eddie, were born on December 12, 2023, at 9.59am and 10.01am, weighing 5lbs 5 oz and 5lbs 11oz respectively]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/09/93639609-14241127-image-a-11_1735723338079.jpg)
Lindsay was told by medics that the device is '99 per cent effective' in preventing pregnancy. She then had to break the news to her partner, Joe Wood, 47, a HGV driver - whom she'd only met 12 months before - after she got divorced from her first husband.
![[Eloise Eileen Wood was born at 9.59am weighing 5lbs 5oz, and Eddie Charles Wood was born at 10.01am weighing 5lbs 11 oz]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/09/93639617-14241127-image-a-12_1735723368800.jpg)
Both Joe and Lindsay have older children - Lindsay has three daughters, aged 20, 19, and 17, and Joe has three sons, aged 28, 21, and 18. Lindsay Green, 43, from Hull , East Yorkshire, who had a 'less than one per cent' chance of conceiving while on the coil was shocked to discover she was pregnant - with twins.
![[Lindsay - who was 43 at the time - only knew about her pregnancy for the final three months, which she described as 'hard going']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/01/09/93639611-14241127-image-a-13_1735723501505.jpg)
Despite children 'not being on the cards', the couple were over the moon when their miracle twins, Eloise and Eddie, were born on December 12, 2023, at 9.59am and 10.01am, weighing 5lbs 5 oz and 5lbs 11oz respectively. Lindsay said: 'They really are little miracles.
