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I will always be Liberty’s MUM

‘I WAS A MUM, WITHOUT MY BABY’

Nothing compares to the love a mother has for her child. I’m lucky, I’ve known that love three times. But while I am a mother of three, when I wake up, I prepare only two bowls of cereal and at the end of the day I hang only two school uniforms up in the wardrobe and read two bedtime stories. Because one of our babies didn’t make it home.

When my husband Alessandro, then 39, and I found out we were expecting our first baby in April 2010, we were ecstatic. Strong and steady on the sonographer’s monitor, we saw our baby’s heartbeat,

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