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MailOnline, UK | 14 April 2022 | Text:\u00a0Claire Toureille<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the full article on dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n


\nSuvi Mahonen, 47, from Surfers Paradise, has tried for baby for past seven years<\/b><\/p>\n

She and husband Luke Waldrip, 50, spent $236,275 on 30 rounds of IVF\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Couple, who already have daughter Amity, eight, finally pregnant with second<\/b><\/p>\n

\nA 47-year-old woman desperate for a second child has finally fallen pregnant after spending over $236,275 on 30 rounds of IVF.<\/p>\n

After seven agonising long years, Suvi Mahonen, 47, from Surfers Paradise, Queensland, has finally fallen pregnant with her miracle second baby after taking out loans to fund her IVF journey.<\/p>\n

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Watch the video in Suvi\u2019s YouTube in which the couple finally receive their positive test<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The journalist and her husband Luke Waldrip, 50, began trying to conceive through IVF in May 2015, two years after welcoming their now eight-year-old daughter Amity.<\/p>\n

After seven soul-crushing years of negative results, the couple decided to travel to O.L.G.A. Clinic in St Petersburg, Russia, where they spent $38,788 on three rounds of IVF using a donor egg.<\/p>\n

The couple were elated to receive the long-awaited positive result soon after returning back to Australia.<\/p>\n

Suvi said:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were gearing up to be disappointed. I still had my suitcase out on the table, and I remember thinking, \u201cI\u2019m not going to unpack because I might be needing to go back to the clinic in Russia for another transfer.<\/i><\/p>\n

Then the test was positive and there were tears of joys. But a huge part of that was tears of relief.<\/i><\/p>\n

I think, the only reason we decided to give it one last go was because of the Olga Clinic\u2019s money back guarantee. When we found the Olga Clinic I was like, \u201cIf we succeed, fantastic. Who cares about paying off the debt for the rest of our lives?<\/i><\/p>\n

But I was pretty much resigned at that point anyway and you have to come to a point where you have to accept your life.<\/i><\/p>\n

Even if you had failed on one level you have to look at what you have, and we do have a beautiful daughter, so I was resigned to that.<\/i><\/p>\n

But finally, this journey can actually be over.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

The expectant couple\u2019s IVF journey has ranged three continents, first starting in Australia, they soon travelled to Los Angeles, in 2015 and finally to O.L.G.A. Clinic, in Russia where they spent more than $38,788 on three rounds of IVF using a donor egg.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s official! Suvi holding a scan of her new pregnancy. She admitted that being pregnant is \u2018anxiety-inducing\u2019 after trying for so long<\/p>\n

She said:\u00a0<\/span><\/b> \u201cAt the beginning when we were doing rounds of my own eggs, I was being honest with people and tell them that we were trying with IVF.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I stopped, I couldn\u2019t bear it, I couldn\u2019t bear the humiliation. I just ended up telling people we had stopped.<\/i><\/p>\n

Stopping and giving up has been something that has been very much on the cards at times.<\/i><\/p>\n

The negative test results were devastating; they became soul destroying and it made me feel like a failure.<\/i><\/p>\n

It clouds so much of your other life as well, so, you feel like a failure in everything.<\/i><\/p>\n

If we didn\u2019t succeed with the OGLA Clinic, we would get that money back and that really would have been it.<\/i><\/p>\n

I would be reaching that stage where that literally would be it, \u201cWe had given it our best shot and we will just have to walk away and get our money back if it didn\u2019t work.<\/i><\/p>\n

So that was why we chose to take one last chance.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\nThe couple took out loans to pay for their IVF journey, but Suvi who is expecting her little bundle of joy in December 2022, says it was all worth it.<\/p>\n

She said:<\/b> \u201cWe\u2019re going to be paying off the debt for the rest of our lives, but I said to my husband, \u201cI don\u2019t care if we\u2019re living in a tent, we just have our family\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n

We\u2019re at the age where we should own property by now, but we don\u2019t because we prioritised our family.<\/i><\/p>\n

It\u2019s still early days, so there is a chance that something could go wrong, but we have another embryo already on ice and we have two more rounds with O.L.G.A. clinic.<\/i><\/p>\n

Until there is actually a newborn baby on your chest, it\u2019s anxiety-inducing. But we are very hopeful with this pregnancy; the signs so far are good.<\/i><\/p>\n

We\u2019re pretty certain now, given this positive result, which is a huge step in the right direction, we\u2019re pretty confident that at the end of the journey we will have our three kids, including our Bulldog Piper.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Suvi and Luke with Amity in 2013. The couple admitted trying to conceive made them feel like a failure all the time<\/p>\n

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