Pick Me Up!

A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIEND

Mixing with guests in the garden, I was glowing.

It was my baby shower and my partner Callum, 23, and I were having a boy.

‘Thank you so much for organising this,’ I smiled at my dad, Guy, 47, in September 2021. ‘It’s been perfect.’

Cradling my bump, I looked up and laughed when I saw my best friend Kayleigh, 35, racing towards me.

‘I’m so happy for you!’ she said, hugging me. ‘I know how much you want to be a mum.’

Kayleigh and I had met years ago working for a payroll company in Luton.

Takeaway Fridays at her house and days out with her children Evie and Zach and her husband Gary, we were inseparable – I knew she would always be there for me.

And aside from a little bit of morning sickness, my

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