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Health
Chelsea Heaney

Speaking up for lives harmed by alcohol in the womb

Jessica Birch is among the one million Australians living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

Bedridden by her late 20s and "laughed out of doctors' offices", it took years for Jessica Birch to receive a life-changing diagnosis.

Now she is sharing her story to help the estimated more than one million Australians also affected by her lifelong condition.

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