'I'm 47 and have had eleven miscarriages. This is our last chance'

Deri Baines-White paced up and down her bathroom as she tried to calm her butterflies. It felt different this time. Today could finally be the day.

She held her breath as she reached for the pregnancy test on the sink. Clutching it in her hand, she paused. She wanted to enjoy the sense of hope for a little bit longer.

Deri turned the stick around and opened her eyes. There it was – that familiar single line. That pang of disappointment.

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Deri and her husband Gary had been trying for a baby since 2010. Having met at the age of 35, the pair knew they wanted to create a family as soon as possible.

But they never have imagined they’d still be trying 13 years later – suffering 11 tragic miscarriages along the way.

“I can’t explain how much it would mean for us to be a family,” Deri, now 47, told the Manchester Evening News.

“It would be a wish come true – I can’t even put it into words. It’s been very stressful but we’re a strong unit and we’ve got through each loss. But every time we lost a baby, we lost part of our soul.”

Deri first fell pregnant at the end of 2010. Sadly, she suffered an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilised egg implants itself outside of the womb.

She conceived a short time later but tragically had yet another ectopic pregnancy. That loss was followed by a blighted ovum, where the placenta and sac grow but there is no baby.

As they grew older, the couple, who live in Monton, Salford, decided to save up £6,000 for IVF treatment in Prague and visited the Czech Republic in 2013.

Deri had donor eggs implanted and fell pregnant with twins but tragically miscarried when fluid leaked into her womb.

“It was another loss and it was very