A TV newsreader has announced that she is expecting her first child following six years and 15 rounds of IVF treatment.
Hannah Vaughan-Jones, an anchor for CNN, took to Instagram on June 26 to state she was "stunned, scared, lucky and grateful" to find out she was pregnant.
The 38-year-old, who is married to BBC news presenter Lewis Vaughan Jones, from Penarth , has long documented her fertility struggles through a series of video blogs on YouTube.
The footage reveals Hannah’s painstaking regime of injections and their side effects as well as her frequent trips to hospital.
In a previous story for WalesOnline , she opened up on the physical hardship the fertility process causes and the mental anguish the couple endured.
But in her latest post, she revealed that one of two "low grade" embryos implanted in April had proved successful against all odds.
She wrote on Instagram: "Bit of personal news: 15 #IVF treatments later...I’m pregnant. @LVaughanJones and I are feeling stunned, scared & lucky & grateful. Thank you to friends, family, colleagues & strangers for the overwhelmingly support."
The couple, who first met at Cardiff Journalism School in 2004, said they have ploughed "tens of thousands of pounds" into paying for private treatment after having just one free on the NHS in London.
They even allowed TV crews from Channel 5 to follow them as they embarked on their eighth attempt last year - showing every stage of the process from retrieving the eggs to fertilisation.
Hannah said the couple were about to try donor conception abroad after giving up hope of having their own biological child.
She wrote: "Here’s the details: @lvaughanjones & I were (and still are) fully signed up for donor conception.
“We had the clinic booked, consultation done and were just one click away from booking flights.
“We had two embryos still in the freezer from a cycle in November.
“Both had returned an 'inconclusive' result from PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening). Given that everything else we’d produced had been genetically abnormal we assumed these low grade embryos would be too.
“Still, knowing we had to walk away from this long process having given it absolutely everything, we decided to transfer both of them in early April.
"After years of injections, this was a natural frozen cycle. No stims, no estrogen patches, no clexane or lubion.
“No steroids or fat drips. No fuss. Just the old cyclogest after transfer. I took a very relaxed approach and barely even kept up with my folic acid supplements, convinced as I was that this would be our final failure.
“I worked a lot. I worked out a lot too.”
Hannah said she had first learned that she was two to three weeks pregnant on her test day but that she and Lewis had immediately dismissed the news, preparing for a miscarriage.
Now, weeks later, Lewis has insisted the couple celebrate the good news, saying that they can "cry about it later if it goes wrong".
The CNN presenter added: "We remain stunned & acutely aware of the hurdles ahead.
“Thank you to friends, family, colleagues & strangers for your overwhelming support.”
