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Woman with dead ovaries says new diet helped her fall pregnant Eve Woman

By Isaias A. Mott 3 months ago
Gemma, 33, claims a vegan diet helped her fall pregnant (Image: Gemma Isaacs/Instagram)

A woman who was told her ovaries were “dead” after battling breast cancer has told how she defied the odds to have a second child.

Gemma Isaacs, 33, claims a vegan diet helped her fall pregnant with her “miracle” baby boy, who was born last year.

The Londoner, already mum to daughter Ella, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 when she was only 31 even though she did not have a lump or any other common symptoms.

Gemma underwent radiotherapy and a double mastectomy, and later found out she had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts women at greater risk of both breast and ovarian cancer.

Doctors told her that her ovaries were “dead”, and she considered having them removed.

Gemma and her husband Daryll after the birth of their son last August (Image: Gemma Isaacs/Instagram)
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Woman told her ovaries were ‘dead’ says new diet helped her fall pregnant

By Isaias A. Mott 3 months ago

A woman who was told her ovaries were “dead” after battling breast cancer has told how she defied the odds to have a second child.

Gemma Isaacs, 33, claims a vegan diet helped her fall pregnant with her “miracle” baby boy, who was born last year.

The Londoner, already mum to daughter Ella, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 when she was only 31 even though she did not have a lump or any other common symptoms.

Gemma underwent radiotherapy and a double mastectomy, and later found out she had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which puts women at greater risk of both breast and ovarian cancer.

Doctors told her that her ovaries were “dead”, and she considered having them removed.

Gemma Isaacs and her husband Daryll in hospital with their newborn son
Gemma and her husband Daryll after the birth of their son last August

She later adopted a vegan

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Eng’s Heritage food poisoning: Pregnant woman says she vomited and had diarrhoea over 100 times, Singapore News

By Isaias A. Mott 3 months ago

It was just a simple bowl of wonton noodles, but it was enough to land one pregnant woman in hospital with food poisoning.

Speaking to Shin Min Daily News, the woman, who is seven months pregnant, said she was warded for five days. She also vomited and had diarrhoea over 100 times after eating at Eng’s Heritage’s Northpoint City outlet on Jan 7.

The 30-year-old had visited the wonton noodle chain with her husband, 32.

Mere hours after eating there, her husband began experiencing sudden sharp pain in his abdomen, she recounted.

He also had diarrhoea “till his legs were wobbly and he felt faint”.

“As for me, it was about 5am when I started vomiting and having diarrhoea. After tossing and turning the whole night, we rushed to a gynaecology clinic as we were worried the baby would be affected,” she said.

Fortunately, the doctor reassured her that

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Pregnant woman shares humiliation of being given vital injections in public carpark while in hotel quarantine

By Isaias A. Mott 3 months ago
Cherie with her daughter while in quarantine.
Cherie with her daughter while in quarantine.  Photo: Supplied

A pregnant North Queensland woman has told of her distress at being taken to a carpark to be given necessary injections in her buttocks while quarantining at a Gold Coast hotel.  

Tears well up in Cherie’s eyes as she recalls having to stand in the carpark of a doctor’s surgery and lift her skirt while a nurse gave her the injection.

“I was in shock the first time and just let them do it, but when I got back to my room I just started crying,” Cherie, who does not want her surname used for privacy reasons, said.

“I felt my dignity had been taken away and I was not treated humanely.”

The 49-year-old had just returned from Greece, where she had undergone an embryo transfer, and under doctor’s orders was required to have intra-muscular progesterone injections in her buttocks every

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