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to hav have a child. Charmagne, of Sou South West London, had six rounds of IVF and endured four m miscarriages at six, eight, 15 and an 16 weeks. P Postmortems on three of the th babies – two girls and a boy – showed the foetuses fo were in perfect health. he

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Charmagne entered the trial tr in her fifth pregnancy at the end of 2017.

“That pregnancy was our ou final shot,” said Ch Charmagne, a nurse. “We We’d decided if we lost another baby, we’d stop trying. I couldn’t keep going on saying goodbye to our babies. But we were both aware of our increasing age. Time was running out.”

The couple had spent more than £20,000 on IVF and had gone through heartache neither could bear.

The impact of the miscarriages seeped i nto every area of churchgoer Charmagne’s life, driving her to worship elsewhere to avoid pregnant friends.

Fearful

On the trial she began taking an aminophylline pill twice a day along with the hormone progesterone.

Aminophylline is a common, cheap medication given to prevent and treat asthma and other lung diseases.

It is also given to premature babies in neo-natal units. Charmagne said: “Before I knew it we’d reached our 20-week scan, a first for us. Seeing our baby developing was amazing but I was frightened to hope we might finally take a baby home instead of mourning it.”

Charmagne didn’t buy maternity clothes, fearful it would jinx things.

But thanks to Prof Johnson’s trial, baby Mia Isabella Therese – a name given in tribute to her lost brothers and sisters – arrived safely in April.

Mia weighed 5lb 6oz and spent just two days in the neo-natal unit before going home with her thrilled parents.

The aminophylline may also have helped Mia’s premature lungs cope better than usual.

Aminophylline and similar drugs have been used for years to help premature babies breath better in neonatal units.

Charmagne said: “I can’t thank Prof