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    Nov 26, 2020 6 minutes
    WORDS BY HATTIE BISHOP.

    Standing, frozen to the spot in my bathroom, I stared down at the two blue lines, my eyes filled with tears so I could no longer see them.

    But I knew they were there. ‘We did it!’ my boyfriend Mark, 29, whispered in my ear as he pulled me in for a hug.

    It was 15 November 2018 and I had been almost running out of hope that I might ever become a mum, but suddenly all the health worries of the previous few years just melted away.

    ‘It’s all been worth it,’ I smiled, spilling tears on Mark’s shoulders.

    Mark, a database developer, and I have been together for six years, but the problems had really begun in my teens...

    I had the most ridiculously heavy periods – sometimes they were so bad that I’d set my alarm an hour earlier in the morning

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