We are walking The Capital Ring, a 79 mile continuous walking route around London to raise funds, awareness and support for the women and families dealing with the awful outcomes of molar pregnancies and Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.

Our story follows below. Please read, share, donate and join us on Sunday 7th June in Hendon Park to walk the first route with us. (Details to follow).

On the 24th March 2014, our beautiful daughter Eden was born. Every birth is miraculous and life-changing, but Eden's came against all the odds.  

The early weeks of Rochelle's pregnancy were filled with awful illness. An early scan identified a partial-molar pregnancy. We were told to prepare for the worst, but wait for a couple of weeks for the pregnancy to progress enough to make a clearer assessment.

Waiting for such shattering news, whilst dealing with our daughter Maya’s needs, battling sickness, kidney stones and the mental stresses of preparing for a termination as well as the risk of cancer, chemotherapy and potentially no future children was almost unbearable. We attended scans every week, in the hope of any sign that the pregnancy may be viable without causing risk to Rochelle. A positive scan wasn't necessarily reassuring, in that we feared our hopes would be raised, only to be dashed at the following scan. Emotionally, we had no idea how or what to think.

Many scans, admissions to hospital and a Downs Syndrome scare later, our 22 week scan seemed to show that the molar tissue had somehow been absorbed by the placenta, against all odds. When Eden was born 18 weeks later - amazingly - she and Rochelle were both given the all-clear. We know how lucky we are, and that the ending to our story is different to the overwhelming majority of people who face heartbreak on the back of this awful cancer. That's why we want to shine a light on trophoblastic cancer, support those unfortunate to be living through it and help make their lives a bit easier.  Professor Anthony Seckl of the Cancer Treatment and Research Trust is working on a test that will give mothers suffering the effects of a GTD clarity on whether they require chemotherapy and other treatments far more quickly than is currently available.

We must do all we can to limit the suffering caused by this cancer, so please please donate what you can, and share this page as far and wide as you are able. 

Thank you so much.