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PREGNANCY LOSS You are not ALONE

It was love at first test.

Staring at the positive line on the pregnancy test, I imagined the future with my baby.

‘I’m pregnant,’ I told my partner Jamie, then 38, a FIFO worker.

Neither of us could believe I’d fallen so quickly and, bursting with excitement, I told all the family.

In September 2017, we went for a 12-week scan.

‘We’re going to see our baby today!’ I beamed to Jamie.

But as the sonographer stared intensely at the screen, and then performed an internal scan, something felt wrong.

‘I’m sorry, it’s not a viable pregnancy,’ she told us.

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