Teressa Woodhead, 44, became only the third woman in the world to successfully give birth while taking powerful anti-cancer drug Herceptin

Inspirational mum who defied doctors to give birth and beat cancer weds with miracle daughter by her side
12:58, 10 AUGUST 2015
BY RICHARD WHEATSTONE , MARK LISTER

Teressa Woodhead, 44, became only the third woman in the world to successfully give birth while taking powerful anti-cancer drug Herceptin

A miracle mum who battled overwhelming odds to give birth to her baby daughter then beat the disease has tied the knot with her little girl by her side.

Teressa Woodhead, 44, became only the third woman in the world to successfully give birth while taking powerful anti-cancer drug Herceptin .

Teressa says she was planning her funeral as she fought breast cancer eight years ago but was stunned to hear she was pregnant while she underwent treatment she was told would leave her infertile.

After fighting back to give birth and then beat the disease she believes seven-year-old Keira gave her the strength to keep fighting.

Now Teressa has celebrated the day she thought she'd never see as she married her partner Neil Llewellyn with little Keira by her side as bridesmaid .

Teressa said: "I honestly did not think I would be standing here today. When I was first told I had breast cancer, I really hit rock bottom.

"I started planning for my funeral and I had even picked out the songs I wanted. It never occurred to me that just three months into my recovery I would be planning for a baby instead.

"I remember lying in bed one day, so tired I couldn't move and asking for a sign that I was going to be all right just a few weeks later I found out I was pregnant with Kiera.

"I do believe that she was sent to me as a sign that I was going to beat cancer and that I had a future."

But this was not the end of the family's troubles. Just two months after being given the all-clear from her breast cancer battle, Teressa was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November 2011.

It was this latest sad news that inspired the happy couple to finally marry at St Nicholas' Church in Beverley, Yorks, with Kiera and their eldest daughter, Rhianne, 12, as bridesmaids.

"Life is too short not to do the things that make you happy," Teressa said.

"Sometimes, when I remember how low I was feeling when I was first diagnosed, it seems amazing that I am still here, I have to pinch myself to know it is real.

"But I really want people to know that there is life after breast cancer. We are living proof of that."

Miracle mum Kate Williams conceived baby Nel while taking Herceptin THE first mum in Britain to have a baby while taking Herceptin is today celebrating Mother’s Day with her “miracle child” – exactly five years to the day after being diagnosed with cancer.