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‘Did you want a SON?’

‘MY DAUGHTERS HAVE BROUGHT OUT A MORE NURTURING SIDE IN ME’

Scott Bees, 32, a postman, and his wife Hannah, 30, who is studying to be a youth worker, live in Cardiff with their daughters, Elise, 13, Izabella, 10, Scarlett, eight, Lucy, five, and Ivy, four.

I’ll never forget being in a supermarket, surrounded by my lovely daughters, when another shopper rudely enquired, ‘Still trying for a boy?’ I shook my head and didn’t even bother to respond.

We’re used to it. Everybody assumes we had so many children because we hoped for a boy, when what

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