Pulling the biggest frown I’d ever seen, my three-year-old daughter Millie was very unhappy indeed.
It was September 2017, and my partner Tom, 34, and I had just told her she was going to have a baby brother.
‘I wanted a sister!’ she wailed. Millie loved dressing up as Rapunzel and had dreamed of a little sister who would swish beside her in a princess costume.
‘You can still play games with your brother,’ Tom laughed.
When Charlie was born in February 2018, Millie changed her tune – she was besotted!
But giving birth to Charlie hadn’t been easy.
‘I can’t seem to push very well,’ I said to Tom during labour.
I was confused – when Mille had come along in October 2014, I’d had no problems.
This time, though, I felt so weak, and really struggled.
I did it, though, and felt an overwhelming rush of love as soon as I saw Charlie’s tuft of blond hair.
He weighed 8lb 11oz, but I’d needed to be cut quite a bit so he could be born, so instead of getting immediate skin-to-skin cuddles, he was handed to Tom while I had a blood transfusion.
Hours later, despite feeling so tired, I smiled and took Charlie into my arms.
Back home, fatigue continued to seep through me.
Must be the blood loss, I thought. But apart from breastfeeding Charlie, the only other thing I seemed to do was sleep. I just couldn’t shake off the exhaustion.
‘Must be because I’ve got two little ones,’ I reasoned with Tom.
But, two months after Charlie was born, I felt a dull ache at the back of my eye.
The dull headaches persisted over the next few days, and then weeks.
One morning, at 2am, I woke up feeling sick.
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