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Chatting all things motherhood with the Marketing & Sales Director at Merci Maman
Please can you introduce yourself? My name is Alix Stanworth and my husband’s name is Stan. I have two girls aged seven & five and we live in Surrey. I am the International Sales & Marketing Director for Merci Maman and have worked there for four years. Such beautiful girls! How was your journey through motherhood? I have always wanted to be a mum and didn’t really think anything more than getting married and having children straight away. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out like that. We were unable to conceive for three years.
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We went through all the standard tests the GP does to check hormone levels, etc. and we weren’t really getting any answers as to why there might be a problem; everything seemed ‘normal’. I underwent a test with the NHS to check to make sure my fallopian tubes were clear, and we met an amazing doctor called Mr Griffiths. However, we found out that the waiting list was nearly a year and fertility procedures were always the first things to be cancelled. Thankfully, Mr Griffiths agreed to see me privately and I scheduled a follow-up appointment with him for three weeks later. He informed me that to get a definitive answer as to why I was unable to conceive
would mean having an operation called a See & Treat Laparoscopy. There was no doubt in my mind, and we booked the operation for December that year. In usual cases, this operation should take around 90 minutes but mine ended up taking 5 hours. I was then told I had extreme Endometriosis and Polycystic Ovaries. The good news was that during the operation, he had been able to remove most of the Endometriosis and had cleaned my fallopian tubes as much as he could. I was advised that this was going to be the time when I am likely to be the most fertile. In April the following year, I was pregnant and in December I had my daughter Lottie.
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