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Home-Start: Mother's helper

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Home-Start is a national charity that provides support for parents in difficulty. With an 80 per cent success rate, the approach obviously works. Alex Klaushofer reports.

Emma Borg is the last person you would expect to struggle as a parent.

With a nice house, supportive husband and parents living nearby, it seemed that everything was in place for a happy family life. But four months after the birth of her third daughter, Connie, the post-natal depression that had accompanied the births of her first two children descended once again.

"I couldn't cope with the thought of going through the normal routine," admits Emma, who lives in Sutton Coldfield. "We run a really busy household here as we're active in the community. But all that just went out of the window."

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