Hamleys worker found out she was pregnant on Christmas Day after being told she would never conceive
‘He really is my Christmas miracle,’ Kerry Proctor says
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Your support makes all the difference.A woman who was told she would never be able to conceive a child discovered she was pregnant on Christmas Day.
In 2008, Kerry Proctor, from Thurrock, Essex, was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) at the age of 16, a condition that can lead to difficulty getting pregnant.
Proctor said she didn’t worry about her fertility until her mid-20s, when she began a relationship with her partner, 32-year-old Chris Baxter.
Having never had a period, the Hamleys toy shop worker was told by doctors there was “no hope” of her becoming a mother due to her PCOS.
Five months after throwing away her contraceptive pill, the 27-year-old started to feel nauseous while on a Christmas holiday with Baxter in Amsterdam.
After taking a pregnancy test, Proctor found she was expecting their first child together.
Jackson, the couple’s “Christmas miracle”, was born in August 2017, weighing 8lbs 15oz.
“At first I just didn’t believe the test result said positive, so we went out again to buy more tests,” Proctor said.
“I’d been told I had zero chance of carrying a child naturally and wouldn’t be able to get pregnant.”
Proctor explained that she and Baxter had decided to go away that Christmas because she’d been “feeling so low after the news”.
“I just needed to get away and be alone with my boyfriend,” she said, adding that it was particularly difficult to be at home as her sister had recently had a baby.
“So to find out I was in fact pregnant after all, on the most magical day of the year too, it was just so special."
Proctor says she didn’t realise “how severe” her case of PCOS was until she and her partner began discussing the prospect of having children.
‘’It’s a very, very hard thing to hear as a woman,” she said of being informed by a doctor that she would never be able to conceive.
‘’I felt like my chance to be a mum had just been snatched away, it was heartbreaking.”
She initially believed the nausea she was experiencing in Amsterdam was “down to a bug”.
After taking two pregnancy tests that both turned out positive, Proctor refused to believe the results until she visited her doctor in Essex on 13 January 2017.
Seven months later, she gave birth to her son at Basildon University Hospital in Essex.
‘’The birth was a scary experience but so worth it,” she stated. ‘’Jackson has defied all the odds to be here, he really is my Christmas miracle.’’
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