A nurse who suffered nine miscarriages has spoken of her delight at becoming a mother.

Ever since her 20s Catherine Findlow had tried for a baby.

But after years of heartbreak - in which she lost 10 babies including twins - Mrs Findlow has found joy thanks to a pioneering medical treatment. As her 40th birthday approached in July last year Mrs Findlow considered sterilisation ending her chances of motherhood.

But the 41-year-old gave birth to 5lb Daniel Robert last month to the joy of second husband Matt - whom she met and fell in love with in 2000.

Just before last Christmas Mrs Findlow, of Runcorn, Cheshire, discovered she was pregnant again.

Staff at Liverpool Women's Hospital - who treated her - were carrying out pioneering research into the causes of multiple miscarriage.

They discovered that "killer" cells in her uterus were destroying her chances of motherhood and consultant obstetrician Siobhan Quenby immediately put her on a course of steroids. The cells - known as NK cells - protect against cancer and infection but if there are too many then too much oxygen is produced, which can be toxic in an early pregnancy.

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