‘I feared I’d never get pregnant but welcomed my little bundle of joy…now I ask doctors if I’ll lose my son’

A mum endured heartbreak over fears she couldn’t have children until she welcomed a baby boy in November - now she fears she will lose her ‘bundle of joy’ less than a year later.

Talour Greenwood, 26, from Tameside, struggled to get pregnant and worried she would never have her ‘own baby to love and cherish’ during her two-year relationship with her partner, Ryan Sigley, 28.

But she discovered the incredible news of her pregnancy in March 2022. Recalling the moment she found out, she said: “It didn’t feel real when I went for the scan and was told I was six weeks pregnant. I cried so hard."

It was the ‘happiest day of their life’ and even more so when the pair found out Talour would be welcoming the ‘little baby boy I always dreamed and wished for - my little best friend’.

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She told the M.E.N.: “I’m from a big family and I’ve got nieces and nephews who I treat as my own - the bond I have with them is unbreakable. I wanted my own baby to love and cherish for as long as possible, it is something I dreamed and wished for.

“I always dreamed of having my own little boy and then found out during the gender reveal I got my little best friend.”

The couple started to plan their life as a bigger family with Ryan’s two sons Archéy-Ryan, six, and Freddéy-Aaron, four.

But suddenly, the couple received devastating news.

Their world came ‘tumbling down’ at 33 weeks pregnant, when their baby boy was diagnosed with a severe heart condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). It's a birth defect which affects the normal blood flow through the heart.

“Doctors noticed something was wrong and referred us to Saint Mary’s Hospital