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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Lucy Varley

My 'heavy period' turned out be a hidden condition - it almost killed me and the baby I didn't know I was having

My friends and family have always said: “Lucy, you were born to be a mum.”

I wholeheartedly believe that to be true. But it’s astonishing to me, to think that the very thing I was born to do almost killed me.

The most magical moment of my life was when I became a mum, in November 2019. As I held my beautiful son in my arms, breathing in his gorgeous newborn scent, his tiny fingers wrapped tightly around mine, I felt a love like never before.

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