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Uploading a new picture to her Facebook page, Clarisa Figueroa clicked ‘post’.

Proudly sharing an ultrasound picture of her unborn baby, she couldn’t wait to meet her new arrival

Her 20-year-old son Xander had died of natural causes in 2017 – the new baby, due in May 2019, really was a ray of light in a time of darkness.

Sharing the news with family and friends in October 2018, it was a miracle – especially as Clarisa, then 46, had her tubes tied years earlier.

But when a friend commented asking how her pregnancy was possible, she told them she’d had her fallopian tubes untied when she had emergency surgery for her appendix.

And by March 2019, Clarisa was getting

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