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Bouncing back

Sitting in my doctor's office, I clutched my stomach in terror.

‘I'm calling an ambulance,’ the GP said.

It was March 2019 and I'd been suffering from pneumonia for months.

Racing heart, constant cough, struggling to catch my breath.

It wasn't getting better and now I had chest pains and bleeding, too.

Rushed to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, I was kept in overnight.

Only, in the early hours of the morning, the doctor woke me with news.

‘You're pregnant,’ he said.

I was lost for words.

Scans had confirmed I was 16 weeks

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