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Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017): Catherine Martin: ...who faced life's biggest nemesis - death. My maternity leave of 26 weeks commenced the day after Patrick was born. There were no congratulatory cards, no shiny balloons, no photos of my husband or I holding our little boy. Only silent tears, trying to hold it together for each other, living hour-to-hour, day-to-day for the first two months. Our little boy, the apple of our eyes,...

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