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MAKING MARKO SMILE AGAIN

Beaming in his bassinet, chuckling in his car seat and happy in his high chair, my baby boy Marko was always smiling.

Our third child, Marko was a relaxed, grinning version of his big brothers Petar, then six, and Aleksa, three. So, when he suddenly stopped smiling, I was worried.

‘I think there’s something really wrong,’ I told my husband, Andrija, 41, in February 2018.

At 16 months old, Marko had developed constant diarrhoea and

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