Woman's Own

MY SPECIAL GIRLGONE FOREVER

Waking up on my 33rd birthday in June 2017, I had a permanent smile on my face. Beside me lay my wonderful partner Michael, then 28, and in the next room slept our beautiful daughter Nia, then two. The three of us lived in our own flat in Hatfield and I loved my job as a special education needs tutor.

When I’d fallen pregnant with Nia in May 2014, it had ended two years of heartache. We had been trying for so long, we feared it would never happen for us.

Finding out we were expecting a little girl, my love for the life growing inside of me intensified. It was like I could picture her already. But suffering from severe hyperemesis gravidarum (severe pregnancy sickness), I spent most of

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