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Staying in Control – Nicola’s story
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This is a story about breastfeeding. Like all stories, it needs a context. So this story starts 12 weeks before I started breastfeeding, in March 2009. I had been sick for months and putting on weight. I had a thyroid problem, but it was getting worse and I had started to suspect that I had [...]
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