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‘BOTH YOUR MUMMIES are going to have babies!’

Unwrapping the plastic giraffe I’d given her, my partner, Cara, looked at me, confused.

‘I don’t get it,’ she frowned.

‘You said when we have a baby, you’d like it to have that toy,’ I reminded her.

‘Yeah…?’ she said slowly.

Then the penny dropped.

‘You’re pregnant!’ she squealed, throwing her arms around me.

We’d met through mutual friends and started trying for a bub a year after we’d got together.

But it hadn’t been an easy journey…

As I was

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