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MUMMY’S STAR

Shakardokht Jafari, 45, from Portsmouth

Sitting in the living room, I feel a wave of panic and fear hit me.

‘Post-traumatic stress is very common,’ doctors had told me, after my baby arrived.

Sometimes, I can go from being happy and peaceful, to worried and sad in seconds.

But every time I feel that way, I just look at my little boy.

And instantly, the anxiety quickly washes away.

Sina, three, is my baby of hope.

He distracts me from my life-changing diagnosis…

In September 2018, I was having a shower when I noticed a lump on my breast.

‘You should go to the GP,’ my husband Ibrahim, 49, said.

I booked an appointment, and saw my GP two days later.

‘It’s probably nothing to

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