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Mary Wakefield

The scan said my baby wouldn’t live. It was wrong

23 March 2016

3:00 PM

23 March 2016

3:00 PM

When my unborn baby was a five-month-old fetus, twisting about in the internal dark, he was given a death sentence by a man I shall call Anton.

We’d gone, my husband and I, for a 20-week scan at our local hospital. Anton was our designated sonographer; we arrived in his room bright-eyed and anxious, as even elderly first-time parents are.

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