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Tue 01 Jan 2009The painful departure of my miracle daughter
GIVE ME A BREAK:ONE MINUTE you're about to give birth and wondering if you're depriving your first-born by going medical instead of having a birthing pool, the next minute she's a beautiful young woman texting you from a jacuzzi in Spain, writes Kate Holmquist
Where does the time go? And when people say, as they said to me 17 years ago as I held my new baby, my first child, my miracle daughter in my arms, "enjoy her, babies are on loan, not for keeps", what kept me from believing them?
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