Four lost babies - despite a barrage of tests

She first became pregnant in 2005 at the age of 28. The baby, Victoria, was born at 23 weeks, weighing just 1lb 2oz. Sadly, she only lived for 30 minutes, and, as she was born after less then 24 weeks, was classed as a miscarriage.

Following Victoria's birth, Mrs Stockham went on to have three miscarriages the following year. All of these were around eight weeks into the pregnancy.

"You have to have three miscarriages before you are taken seriously, and then I got into a recurrent miscarriage clinic," she said. "They tested me for everything, but could not find anything."

When Mrs Stockham, 33, of Dunfermline, became pregnant again, she was given extensive monitoring and treatment - including taking daily aspirin, weekly scans and having a special cervical stitch.

Then, in November 2007, Mrs Stockham gave birth to a healthy boy Scott, after 35 weeks of pregnancy. "As soon as I got to 28 and 29 weeks I was fine. I was thinking this one will live," she said.

In 2009, Mrs Stockham was pregnant again, but this time there were more complications. I had to do bedrest and lie flat from 20 weeks onwards," she said. "For every week that passed I thought we were getting closer to her surviving.

"Millie got to 26 weeks, had special care for the first three months, but now she is fine."

Mrs Stockham said she would like to see more funding put into research to find out why people were losing babies.