Marjorie Lancaster-Smith was 21 when first she suspected she might be pregnant with her second child.
It was 1966 and in those days, Marjorie says, “you did what you were told”. It’s little surprise then, that when Marjorie was given Primodos, a hormone-based pregnancy test by her GP, she took it, no questions asked.
When her daughter, Tania, was born months later, her severe heart condition meant the family had to endure the “trauma” of nearly losing their baby twice within the first six months of her life. One paediatrician even told Marjorie, from Moreton, to “take Tania home and make her happy” because the chances of her reaching her teenage years were very slight.
