A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia. Kayleigh-Emma Shiel, 30, has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but suffers from tokophobia – a fear of childbirth. Her condition means that she is unable to conceive a child of her own as she is too terrified of pregnancy and the associated pain. Believing that adoption was her only chance of becoming a mother, Kayleigh and her fabricator husband Gary, 47, applied to adopt a child in January this year. But the couple, from Elland, West Yorkshire, were rejected partly due to Kayleigh’s unusual phobia.
Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .
An adorable rescue dog who had her eyes gouged out by thugs in Romania has found a loving home in the UK .
A first-time mum has told how she was allergic to her unborn baby after she developed an angry red rash all over her body .
A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
A grandmother has told how she has been unable to feel emotion for the last 12 years thanks to heart drugs she had to take in order to survive .
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
A LUXURY baby cot has hit the shelves with a price tag just shy of 10 MILLION POUNDS .
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SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .