Almost four years ago, Michelle Hui was heartbroken when she suffered a miscarriage six weeks into her pregnancy.
The 31-year-old, who lives in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, with her young family, was already mum to Mya, 4, and Noah, 2, and had been excited to welcome baby #3, but knew something was wrong when she started bleeding just weeks into her pregnancy.
“I was on my way to work and I just started bleeding,” she explains. “I rang my husband and told him I was losing the baby.”
Five scans finally confirmed her devastating loss.
Having concluded a miscarriage, doctors inserted two vaginal pessaries (a normal procedure following an early pregnancy loss) to make sure nothing was left behind to cause a potential infection.
However, ten days later, when she was back in hospital for one final treatment to clear her uterus, the most miraculous thing happened – proving that sometimes even doctors and science are left at loss for words.
“When they were performing a preparatory scan before the treatment, they found a tiny heartbeat,” Michelle reveals.
“The doctor who performed the scan went out and came back in with a more senior doctor and he did the scan again and he said, ‘you are not going to believe it, we’ve got a heartbeat.’”
According to the doctors, it would seem Michelle had initially been pregnant with twins – and one of them had miraculously survived both the miscarriage and the pills she had to take upon learning of her pregnancy loss.
“The miscarriage and abortion were the worst things to ever happen to me,” Michelle said. “The 10 days between the miscarriage and going back to the hospital were just a blur, and to then find out I had to have yet another procedure, I was just devastated.”
But then the unthinkable happened in that Dublin hospital room.
“I saw this little heartbeat, but I thought it couldn’t be right. After all we had been through, I didn’t want to get my hopes up.”
But baby Megan – clearly a fighter – had indeed clung on to life – and was born healthy and perfect a few month later. To Michelle and her husband Ross, she was in every way their miracle baby.
“I know all babies are miracles in their own right,” Ross explains. “But this lil one is destined to do something special in her life. We do count our blessings every day.”
Michelle couldn’t agree more. “She is our miracle for sure. Not a day goes by without feeling thankful for my little miracle – somebody was looking over us.”
Today, at three, Megan is a lively, active and loving girl –”my shadow,” as her proud mama states. And not only that, she is also a proud big sister to her twin little brothers Oscar and Jacob, 1,5!
“Life as a family of seven is busy, for sure,” admits Michelle. “Our kids are our lives and we have definitively had some surprises along the way. But we are lucky to have five beautiful, healthy children today and we wouldn’t have it any other way.”
