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DARE TO dream

Lynda McIntyre, 40, from Derry, Northern Ireland

Most expectant mums worry, it’s only natural. But during my pregnancy with Cian I just couldn’t shake an intense sense of dread.

All my scans were normal. I was overjoyed when I found out I was having a boy – dreamed of kicking balls in the park.

But something just didn’t feel quite right.

Even when I was finally holding him in my arms, counting his tiny fingers and marveling at his brilliant hazel eyes, something still nagged at the back of my mind.

By the time he was two-and-a-half, we’d started at a mum-and-toddler group and the other mummies nicknamed

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