Dominic and Richard are planning to cycle 425 miles roughly from Suffolk to Lands End in Cornwall. They will be looking to complete this in June 2024, to raise awareness for the Ectopic Pregnancy Charity. The reason for this being, me (Samantha) and Dominic were unfortunate enough to experience this not once but twice in 2022.

Our story:

We started trying for a baby just before my youngest was 1 years old, we was trying for a while when i suddenly saw them two pink lines and rushing to get a clear blue test without Dominic knowing to finally see them words "pregnant" and "3+ weeks" excitedly telling Dominic to come over i needed to speak to him and making a sign and being over the moon to finally having our mini us, to then experiencing a very bad cramp but managing to sleep the pain off and not thinking anything of it, to then experiencing it again whilst at home alone with the two children and having to ring him asking him to come home as i couldnt get off the kitchen floor. He came in ran me a bath to try and ease the pain and rang 111 for some advice on what to do, of course they wanted us to go to a&e, so we drop the kids off to the parents house and head for the hospital to be sat there for hours having a blood test and giving a water sample. For them to send me home and being told to rest.

The next morning we got up and i felt fine again, popped to the supermarket before going to collect the youngest and seeing the grandparent and my parents, to then getting to my nans and being rolled up in excruciating pain again, the pain was so bad i was being sick, i was then back in hospital and admitted there and then and was told i was suffering an ectopic pregnancy, not just a normal one but one that was life threatening due to it being ruptured. I had emergency surgery and 5 hours later i remember being in a little room alone waiting to be reunited with dominic and being told that they removed my fallopian tube so it might be harder to fall pregnant in the future. Missing my children and being in discomfort, i was discharged the next day and had to be on complete bed rest for 2 weeks whilst my incisions healed, this meant dominic had to take time off work and become my carer for 2 weeks and had to do absolutely everything for me and the kids, helping me to the toilet, showering me, making sure i had my medication doing dinners for everyone, doing the school runs, EVERYTHING.

Finally i had healed and was back to my normal self, we talked about everything and agreed we would continue to try again, I then saw them words "pregnant 1-2 weeks" as excited as you shouldve been i was petrified i didnt wanna get our hopes up of having a baby when everything we had just been through. I managed to get to 6 weeks and then had my early scan to be told again that we was experiencing another ectopic pregnancy this time in my last fallopian tube. As we caught this earlier then the last pregnancy they tried to treat me with an injection however that didnt lower my levels they kept increasing so they admitted me back into hospital and had to have surgery again and this time they couldnt save my fallopian tube so if we wanted to get pregnant it would need to be IVF.

I am 1 of 80 women who has suffered an ectopic pregnancy

I am someone who has suffered double ectopic pregnancies

I am now someone who is proun to have another ectopic pregnancy even if we was to go through with IVF.