'No-one mentioned it': The pregnancy danger Kate never knew

By Kate Aubusson
Updated April 15 2017 - 9:48am, first published April 3 2017 - 12:12pm
Kate and Hugh Daly with their six year old son Will Daly. Will suffers from Cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Cytomegalovirus can cause hearing and vision loss and intellectual disability. Will's hearing has been severely effected and has a mental capacity to that of a three year old. Will also has issues communicating through speech. Also pictuted are his sisters Grace 8, twin sister Emmaline and Ellen, 10. Photographed Thursday 30th March 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SHD NEWS 170330 Photo: James Brickwood
Kate and Hugh Daly with their six year old son Will Daly. Will suffers from Cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Cytomegalovirus can cause hearing and vision loss and intellectual disability. Will's hearing has been severely effected and has a mental capacity to that of a three year old. Will also has issues communicating through speech. Also pictuted are his sisters Grace 8, twin sister Emmaline and Ellen, 10. Photographed Thursday 30th March 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SHD NEWS 170330 Photo: James Brickwood

Kate Daly's existence cleaved in two the day her newborn twins were diagnosed. There is her life before she had ever heard the word cytomegalovirus, and her life upended by it.

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