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Anna Dombkins

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And the same Jemima, she just loved them.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And she was developmentally ahead of where they were at.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And so there was four one-year-olds, but in some ways it felt like triplets and her a little bit.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

But she just had all these playmates.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And so she shared all her toys and she showed them what to do and she just...

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

loved them and there was so much laughter and so much hilarity that Mark and I were just constantly entertained sitting around watching these little people just get through their day.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

So we had to use cloth nappies.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And at first we didn't have a washing machine.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

So we had four babies in cloth nappies and it was horrendous.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And then we had a little twin tub washing machine.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And then we had a proper washing machine, but you couldn't, in Tanzania, there's a little bug called a mango fly that lays its eggs in your skin or lays its eggs in wet clothing.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

Then when you wear the clothing, those eggs go into your skin and the bug burrows down and then it hatches a life.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

It's like a plot of a horror movie.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

It really is.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And so we couldn't hang the nappies outside.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

So we had 20 nappies a day at least.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And so we would hang them all over the house.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

There was kind of metal bars across our windows for security.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

And so everywhere there was just nappies drying and it looked like an orphanage.

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The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

But that was just daily life and just getting through the day.