When Sky TV presenter Sophie Blake became pregnant with her daughter Maya, she never imagined that, just a few years later, trying to conceive a baby brother or sister for her would prove so difficult.
'My fiancé Scott and I hadn't been together long when I became pregnant with Maya - it was a shock,' says Sophie, 37.
'So when we started trying for a second baby, we assumed everything would be plain sailing.' But as the months passed with no luck, Sophie began to worry.
It took two years for Sophie to get a diagnosis - and even then it was only down to her persistence and the internet. She suffers from Asherman's syndrome, which is treatable, yet which often goes misdiagnosed, causing recur rent miscarriage and infertility.
Asherman's syndrome is a type of adhesion - where bands of scar-like tissue form inside the body between two surfaces, causing them to stick together. Adhesions are a common problem, affecting 93 per cent of patients who undergo surgery.
The problem is triggered by a dilation and curettage (D&C), a standard procedure used to clear the womb after a miscarriage, or when the placenta is retained after childbirth or a termination, says Adrian Lower, a consultant gynaecologist and one of only a handful of Asherman's specialists in the UK.
It's thought that Asherman's occurs when this is done too forcefully. Around 100,000 procedures are carried out each year, with five per cent resulting in Asherman's.
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