Ms.Loughlin said: "I would never do anything differently, she is worth every second of it."
She is due to start chemotherapy on 23 December, if she is sufficiently recovered from the Caesarean section.
"I'm looking forward to getting on with it now and to kicking this thing so that I can basically just get on with a normal life really."
"The bit that I'm dreading the most is going home for the first time and leaving her here... I'm dreading that part of it."