All worth it

Counting 20 fingers and toes, I beamed with pride. It was 21 June 2015, and I’d just given birth to twins – Amelia and Malachi – at Whipps Cross University Hospital.

‘They look just like you,’ my partner Walter, now 37, smiled.

I knew their older siblings, Isaiah, now nine, and Sapphire, eight, would adore them, too.

But a checkup a few weeks later changed