Single mom-of-13 forced to stop having kids after discovering worrying mass on her uterus

A mom-of-13 has revealed that she has been forced to extremity having kids aft processing a maturation connected her uterus.

Veronica Merritt, 39, has 12 biologic children and 1 adopted child, and has go good known connected societal media for sharing an wrong look astatine her life, which involves spending 3 hours connected preparing dinner, driving astir successful a schoolhouse bus, and color-coding her kids' clothes.

The New York-based mom has antecedently sent societal media users into a rotation aft she revealed the different names of her children and admitted that soaring costs of surviving near her struggling to provender her family.

Now, she has candidly opened up astir a hurdle successful her wellness aft discovering a worrying wide increasing connected her uterus.

Veronica recalled nan heartbreaking infinitesimal she heard she wouldn't beryllium capable to person children again - adding that successful nan future, she would beryllium expanding her family pinch nan thief of take aliases surrogacy. 

She explained: 'I discovered it a fewer months agone and it cannot beryllium safely removed without taking retired my full uterus.

'If I support it, I could perchance still get pregnant, but nan fibroid is truthful ample that it would almost surely origin a miscarriage.' 

The mom-of-13 noted that she wasn't happy pinch nan news because she had plans to person much children.   

'I perfectly do not want this. If I want much kids, I'll person to usage a surrogate aliases adopt,' she admitted. 

She added that she was initially expected to acquisition a afloat hysterectomy connected May 2, 2024, however, it was delayed aft she fell ill. 

But aft getting sick, it had to beryllium rescheduled erstwhile again and was planned for nan past week of June – until she fell sick again and was admitted to hospital.

Now, it's hoped that nan process would return spot earlier nan extremity of July, pinch nan nonstop day yet to beryllium confirmed.

While nan thought of room scares her, she's been near 'terrified' astir nan imaginable of ne'er having children again.

She said: 'I had each my kids pinch [unloving] exes. Now, I'll ne'er beryllium capable to meet personification who does emotion maine and person children pinch them.

'I don't regret my kids, I emotion them, it's conscionable sad that life didn't move retired nan measurement I expected.

'I wanted a large happy family and I'd person that now if I chose a partner who really adored me.' 

However, Veronica admitted that location was a portion of her that felt a spot relieved she couldn't person immoderate much kids. 

She confessed: 'On nan different hand, I consciousness somewhat astatine bid astir being done.

'I tin meet personification and fool astir arsenic overmuch arsenic I want without nan consequence of pregnancy.'

Veronica, who antecedently shared she color-coded her kids to show them apart, said that owed to her wellness scare, she had decided to put herself first.

And contempt emotion guilty, it's successful a bid to 'finally' commencement surviving life.

She added: 'Lately, I've been a small selfish. I'm trying to do much without nan kids, which sounds awful, I know, it's conscionable that I've felt for illustration a captive for a agelong time.

'I'm free to person friends and a societal life now, which I want for myself. I've had truthful galore problems pinch my health, wherever I almost died from a kidney infection, humor clots and a pulmonary embolism.

'It's difficult balancing my clip pinch nan kids and clip for myself, it's beautiful overwhelming astatine times. I conscionable want nan chance to unrecorded a little.'

According to Mount Sinai, nan astir communal growths are uterine fibroids, which are non-cancerous but painful.

Veronica has 12 biologic children and 1 adopted kid:  Victoria, 24; Andrew, 19; Adam, 17; Mara, 16; Dash, 15; Darla, 13; Marvelous, 11;  Martalya, nine; Amelia, seven; Delilah, six; Donovan, four; and Modi, two.

Veronica fell pregnant for nan first clip erstwhile she was conscionable 14 years old.

Victoria was calved successful 1999 and 5 years later, she and her first hubby welcomed their boy Andrew, who is now 17.

After they divorced, she joined her 2nd husband, 38-year-old Marty, and they went connected to person 8 much children together earlier separating.

They're parents to Adam, Mara, Dash, Darla, Marvelous, Martayla, Amelia, Delilah, Donovan, and Modi. She besides precocious adopted a boy named Michel.

According to Veronica, she can't return commencement power because she suffers from kidney illness and it makes her excessively sick.

'I person kidney illness and mislaid my kidney past year,' she told nan outlet backmost successful August.

'Some of nan children were planned, but I can't return hormonal commencement power because my unwellness intends I americium prone to humor clots.'

While speaking to Truly, Veronica admitted that nan family is often met pinch stares from strangers erstwhile they're retired successful nationalist - who will opportunity things like, 'Wow you person your hands full,' or, 'Are they each yours?'

She has besides received immoderate backlash from group connected nan net who person slammed her for having truthful galore children.

'I get a batch of mixed reactions connected my TikTok and Instagram. A batch of them are ace supportive, but there's a batch of negativity arsenic well,' she admitted.

'There's a batch of dislike for beautiful overmuch nary reason. We're really bully group and if group took nan clip to get to cognize us, they would cognize that.'

She antecedently opened up astir being trolled connected TikTok for 'not being capable to afford' her large family by group who declare she should not person had kids successful nan first place.