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My little mermaid

Clutching the pregnancy test in one hand, I threw the other around my husband Ted.

‘Finally,’ I wept.

It was July 2017 and after a year of trying and two rounds of hormone injections, I was expecting.

All that money and stress was worth it, I thought.

Imagining the little life growing inside me.

That September at my 12-week scan, my heart fluttered as the ultrasound technician rubbed cool gel on my tummy.

I was about to see my baby.

Only, her expression suddenly shifted.

‘One moment,’ she said, leaving

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