A woman who tells of her battle with cancer while pregnant

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On Christmas Eve 2015 Karrie-Ann Hoppe, 36, was told she had breast cancer. Still reeling from the news, a few weeks later she got another big shock - she was three months pregnant.

When doctors told me I was pregnant with my second child, I didn't at first grasp what they meant. I was about to be put under a general anaesthetic so they could take two lymph nodes to check for cancer. Then the doctors told me my urine test had come back positive. Then they told me I was pregnant. My husband Luke and I had been trying for another baby since the birth of out eldest son, Wyatt, in 2013. But when I was diagnosed with cancer we put our efforts on hold.