Pick Me Up! Special

Borrowed time

Claire Curtis, 30, from Plymouth, hopes her kids will remember her no matt er what.

Pulling the biggest frown I’d ever seen, my three-year-old daughter Millie was very unhappy indeed. It was September 2017, and my partner Tom, 34, and I had just told her she was going to have a baby brother.

‘I wanted a sister!’ she wailed.

Millie loved dressing up as Rapunzel and had dreamed of a little sister who would swish beside her in a princess costume.

‘You can still play games with your brother,’ Tom laughed.

When Charlie was born in February 2018, Millie changed her tune – she was besotted!

But giving birth to Charlie hadn’t been easy.

‘I can’t seem to push very well,’ I said to Tom during labour.

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