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'I was called a wonder woman for going back to work so soon after birth. It almost broke me.'

'I wanted a baby boy so desperately, I packed up my three girls and flew overseas.'

'I thought I was run down with pneumonia. Then doctors looked at my heart.'

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When Lyndsay lost her baby, there was one thing she regretted telling her three-year-old son.

'I was experiencing mum rage every day, so I wrote strangers a message.'

'When he died, I hadn't spoken to my father in 17 years. I have no regrets.'

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