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Saving Summer Thriving at last

Slipping from my hand, the glass hit the floor and splintered into pieces.

It was December 2008 and I was working behind the bar in a pub.

As I bent down to pick up the shards, I felt a butterfly sensation in my tummy.

The first kicks of my baby!

I was 20 weeks pregnant.

Just a week earlier, I'd found out that I was having a girl.

I was excited despite knowing I'd be a single mum from the outset.

I feared complications as I had type 1 diabetes.

But the scan had shown the baby was healthy.

As I neared the 28-week mark, though, headaches

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