The festive lights have never looked brighter for Rachel Backhouse. This Christmas, after years of heartache, she has been given the best present ever – the gift of a baby daughter.
“There were times when I thought it would never happen and of course I can never forget my journey over the last few years,” says Rachel, who is 29 and from Runcorn.
“But Evie Mai is the future now and I can’t wait to share it with her.”
Rachel is one of a growing number of women who are coming to the Liverpool Women’s Hospital from all over the country for a treatment that gives them hope of having a baby when all else has failed.
The treatment, known as Transabdominal Cerclage (TAC), sees a ‘band of steel’ placed at the neck of the womb to prevent it opening.
It has a 95% success rate and is carried out in only a handful of centres across the UK with the Liverpool Women’s one of the leaders in the field.
“I’d never heard of the procedure yet it has made such a difference to our lives,” says Rachel, cradling little Evie who was born on December 9.
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