My boy WONDER

At my lowest ebb, I turned to an unlikely source for hope.

Laura Cox

Looking down at the pregnancy test, I beamed from ear to ear. ‘It's positive,’ I said to my hubby, Dean, 41. ‘Baby number three!’ he gasped. We already had a boy, Jaikob, nine, and a daughter, Alyssia-Rose, three, and couldn't wait to welcome our new addition. But 10 weeks along, I suffered a devastating miscarriage. My whole world imploded. Since I was little, I'd suffered from anxiety. I always felt like something bad was just around the corner and, now that the worst had happened, it was too much to bear. Turning to food for comfort, my weight — which had already crept up during Covid — ballooned until I was a size 24. It only added to my anxiety, and one day at work, I broke down in tears.…

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Take a Break Fate & Fortune (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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