Pick Me Up!

WHAT HAPPEND?

Standing in the aisle, I watched my baby niece get christened in church.

‘Do you think it’s hot in here?’ I said to my husband Adam, then 23, fanning myself.

‘I’m alright,’ he shrugged, holding our baby girl Rosa-Leigh, then two.

It was July 2017, and I was suffering badly with unusual hot sweats.

The following day, I decided to do a pregnancy test on a complete whim.

We’d recently suffered a miscarriage, so I didn’t want to get my hopes up.

Then suddenly…

‘Adam, come here!’ I screamed out from the bathroom. ‘I’m pregnant!’

We were both so excited to have another baby, and my pregnancy soon whizzed

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