Two months after her daughter Rosie’s death, Carolyn Mayling realised that the only way she could face the future would be to have another baby. Carolyn was already 48 – but she refused to be fazed
Mercifully, David did survive and was discharged the day before his daughter’s funeral. “I went on automatic pilot and thought, ‘I’ve got to get through this.’ Sitting at home rocking wasn’t an option,” says Carolyn – even when, six weeks later, there was further sadness when their dog died. “It was a whole chain of horrendous events,” she reflects.
Yet Carolyn was still determined. “I was probably a bit crazy, but I just couldn’t give up,” she says. “I had to find somewhere else to do it and a friend, who has her own IVF children, recommended a clinic where they treat women over 50. They had a three-year waiting list, but their sister hospital in Cyprus said we could start in three months.”
At the age of 54, Carolyn was pregnant. “I was in disbelief. I showed David, and he was silent,” she says. “It was the first time I’d felt happy since Rosie died.” Dominic was born in December 2008 by Caesarean section. “I did have a moment when I wondered whether I would be able to bond with him, but the minute he was born, there was no doubt.
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