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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alahna Kindred

'I was dismissed by GPs when I wasn't getting a period - they told me to wait a year'

A woman recalled being told she had to wait a year before investigating why she wasn't ovulating when trying for a baby.

Ellie, 28, and her husband dreamed of starting a family in early 2019, but they struggled to be taken seriously.

The primary school teacher described how after coming off her birth control pill she wasn't getting a period, making it impossible to track her ovulation.

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