MS Mandy Allwood, who attempted to make medical history by giving birth to octuplets, lost her five remaining babies last night.
Doctors at King's College Hospital, London, who had said it would take a "miracle" for the remaining foetuses to survive after three babies miscarried, said Ms Allwood's life had never been in danger but her womb had become so over stretched that labour had begun prematurely.
After giving birth to a stillborn boy at her home on Monday, Ms Allwood (32) was rushed to hospital and placed under constant supervision. Later that night two more boys died. Yesterday afternoon, during a medical examination, Ms Allwood miscarried her fourth child, a girl who was also stillborn.
Her consultant, Mr Donald Gibb, said the babies weighed only around 200g each and had "fitted in the palm of my hand". Ms Allwood had specifically requested to hold all her dead babies.
Ms Allwood, who was 19 weeks pregnant, had been advised in August that she had a 50-50 chance of giving birth to twins if she underwent a selective termination of the remaining six foetuses. However, the divorced single mother insisted that she wanted to give birth to all eight babies.
Her publicist, Mr Max Clifford, stressed last night that Ms Allwood had no regrets. "It is just tragic. We were all aware of the risks and that this was a strong possibility or even probability, but it doesn't diminish the tragedy when it actually happens. My heart goes out to Mandy. I know how desperately she wanted to have all or some of them," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children praised Ms Allwood for knot aborting any of the foetuses.
"This woman has lost her babies and she will grieve for them for the rest of her life. But she won't have the sense of guilt she would have had if she had agreed to have some of them terminated," she said.
Ms Allwood's story became headline news in August, after she became pregnant through fertility treatment and immediately contacted the News of the World. Although she initially received a six figure sum for her story, the newspaper insists that there was no "payment per baby" deal.
Mr Clifford, who had predicted that he could raise sponsorship of £1 million for Ms Allwood, aptly summed up this morality tale: "The first person she contacted was her gynaecologist and the second was the PR," he remarked, at the time.
It later emerged that Ms Allwood had not informed her boyfriend, Mr Paul Hudson, that she was receiving fertility treatment and had also ignored medical advice not to have unprotected sex as she was producing too many eggs which would result in a multiple birth. Her story has prompted calls for an urgent review of the availability of such treatment to single parents.
In turn Mr Hudson admitted that he did not live with Ms Allwood, spending alternate nights with his former girlfriend and their two sons. Last week Ms Allwood also lost custody of her five year old son, Charlie, to her former husband, Mr Simon Pugh.