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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Alexandra Slate

Experience: my babies were born seven weeks apart

Alexandra Slate with Loic and Wilkin in High Park, Toronto
‘I still can’t believe how lucky I am’: Alexandra Slate with Loic, left, and Wilkin in High Park, Toronto. Photograph: Tory Ho/The Guardian

The first time I miscarried, I blamed myself. After getting pregnant early on in our relationship, at 34, I had a flash of doubt that my partner Alex and I weren’t ready to be parents. Then, a few weeks later, the pregnancy was over.

My second early loss, just a few months later, hit me harder. We went to a fertility specialist, and the tests on both of us came back clear, but then I couldn’t get pregnant at all.

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