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MY BABY DID THIS TO ME

Caressing my bump as a determined kick prodded me, my tummy suddenly started itching. It was April 2021, I was 31 weeks pregnant, and as I pulled up my top and peered down at my stomach, I noticed some odd pink spots around my belly button.

‘I must have been bitten by something,’ I said to my husband, Warren, then 34. But more and more spots appeared over the next few days, forming into a rash. They became lumpy and unbearably itchy and spread across my body. I found it impossible to leave it alone, my fingers raking constantly at my

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