Quarter of Scots babies are 'happy accidents'

PERCHED on the edge of the bath in the cottage she shared with her boyfriend, Eve McAlpine watched the tiny blue line on the home-pregnancy kit slowly appear. The line telling her she was pregnant for the first time merely confirmed her suspicions, but nonetheless it was only then that she realised her carefree existence would soon be over. "I think 'Oh my God' were my first words, whereas my boyfriend, James, was stunned into silence," the 36-year-old professional recalls of the day she discovered she was pregnant four years ago. .

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