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Keira Rumble, 30, from Sydney, lost the unborn children over a devastating three-year period (pictured in hospital after her heterotopic pregnancy)
A heterotopic pregnancy is rare and involves a dual pregnancy with one pregnancy being ectopic - or in an abnormal place.
After the surgery, Keira was left with chronic pain that doctors dismissed as being adhesion pain from the operation.
But when it had not improved after 18 months and was accompanied by extreme swelling in her abdomen, Keira knew there was something more at play.
After the surgery, Keira was left with chronic pain that doctors again dismissed - this time as being adhesion pain from the operation, but she (pictured) knew something more was wrong