Many patients say their symptoms were not painful but more like an ache or discomfort.

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Last week the ache was unmistakable--and even touching--but the 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out by it.

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Much like the language, the arrangement is a model of sublime economy, built around Veirs' slender guitar part and gentle rhythmic accents. (With her sweet, breathy delivery, the Oregon-based Veirs sounds at times like an older, romantically thwarted Taylor Swift.) But as the song continues, the production gradually builds, as if matching her own escalating ache.

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Two weeks after the scan I got stomach pains - it was labour but I didn't realise it - I went to the hospital thinking I just had a really bad stomach ache - the last thing I expected was to go into full labour - I didn't know you could go into labour at 24 weeks - I'd never heard of it before.

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