BRITAIN’S MOST FERTILE WOMAN? I have used a contraceptive injection, the Pill, condoms and the coil – sometimes all at once – and I still had FOUR kids

After three years as a single mum Emma met Adam, a 24-year-old soldier just back from Afghanistan.

There was an instant attraction – but because she had no desire for more children, Emma kept using the Pill while also ensuring Adam used condoms.

Yet within four months she was pregnant again. She said: “We were shocked the contraception had failed. But we got past that and were both happy.”

Stevie, another baby girl, was born in January 2012. Both parents were over the moon but determined that was the last.

Emma said: “I went straight to my GP and begged to be sterilised. My doctor felt at 25 I was too young and persuaded me to have a coil fitted.

“She suggested the copper coil, not the one that released hormones because we wondered if the hormones I’d been taking were making me more fertile.”

The coil served her well until March last year – when Emma became pregnant for a fourth time. Little Reginald arrived a month premature, in October last year.

Emma says: “By now I was starting to realise no contraception could stop me getting pregnant. But it was great having a little boy after three girls. Reginald made my gang complete.

“My GP was as shocked as I was. She’d never seen this although she knew it happens rarely. She finally agreed for me to be sterilised. It’s not ideal as I’m still young, but I didn’t have much choice.”

Emma, who had the op in April, is now single again after splitting from Adam.

She says: “There’s zero chance of getting pregnant right now. I’m too scared to have sex. It’s not worth the stress.

“My doctor says even with sterilisation there’s a one in 200 chance of getting pregnant. Knowing my luck, I’ll be that 0.5 per cent. Watch this space!”