A woman failed eight rounds of IVF and was unable to have children before finding out her contraceptive coil was left inside her for almost 30 years.
Hayne Huddleston was told by a GP in 1990 that the contraceptive that was fitted a year earlier had fallen out. Because of this, she had another device fitted but had it taken out after she and her husband David, 61, decided to have children.
Despite this, the first device was unknowingly still there while Jayne suffered from heavy periods, bleeding, stomach pain, and infections. After Jayne, now 63, was unable to conceive, she and David underwent eight rounds of IVF between 1995 and 2002.
