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My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

My mum died when I was 11.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met the woman who would become the mother who raised me, before my younger sister, Gillian. It was just the two of us, and he was my whole world.