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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jack Ryder

Mum spent eight years Googling her child's symptoms before diagnosis given

A mum knew something was wrong when her child was not learning to sit up, talk or crawl as a baby.

Claire Whitehill said she noticed her daughter Kirsty wasn't reaching the same milestones as her siblings had, which raised alarm bells.

The 47-year-old said: “The usual things like crawling, walking, sitting up, talking, she didn’t do those at the time that you would normally expect and because she was our fourth child, we kind of knew that something was wrong.”

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