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  • Pick Me Up!

    GLIMMER OF HOPE

    Nov 25, 2021 5 minutes

    Wrapping up the presents in Frozen themed paper, I couldn’t wait for Christmas.

    It was 2019 and it was going to be our last festive season as a family of three.

    My fiancé James, 29, and I were expecting the newest arrival to our gang and we wanted to make sure Amelia, now four, enjoyed her last Christmas as an only child.

    I’d first found out I was pregnant back in May, after a cold knocked me for six.

    ‘Maybe you’re just pregnant,’ my sister Gemma, 36, joked.

    ‘Yeah right,’ I laughed.

    Only, two days later, a pregnancy test confirmed she was right.

    We’d just moved and were planning on renovating before we tried for another baby.

    James and I were both in shock for a while.

    Neither of us knew what to think, but as

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