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LITTLE MIRACLE Our bub weighed LESS THAN A JAR OF VEGEMITE!

Nelma Marks, 37, Croydon, Vic

Butterflies filled my stomach as I followed my husband, Randall, into our bedroom.

I’d just taken a home pregnancy test, and after a year of trying for a baby without success, I couldn’t bear to see another negative result.

‘You check it,’ I said, anxiously.

Randall was already a dad to two kids from a previous relationship, Jake, then 12, and Zoe, nine, and after tying the knot in April 2018, we’d longed to have a baby together.

But with every month that passed with

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