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AMAZING AVA OUR GIRL’S A fighter

Waddling over to the bedside table, I switched off the lamp. ‘Goodnight sweetheart,’ I smiled at my daughter Lexi, then two.

At nine months pregnant, with my husband Brent, then 35, I was expecting our new arrival any day.

‘Your sister will be here very soon,’ I whispered.

When the baby still hadn’t come a week after my due date, I headed to hospital to be induced. Doctors thought I might need an emergency caesarean.

Thankfully, I was able to give birth naturally and, in minutes, our beautiful girl

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