Tragedy has beset Rebecca Doig on the day that should have been the happiest of her life. Strange as it may sound she was completely indifferent while giving birth to her new baby girl.
The 31-year- old has a rare form of Alzheimer’s that has advanced so rapidly during her pregnancy that she can no longer recognise her baby daughter Emily.

Her husband Scott, a council worker, said: ‘She has gone from being an independent, outgoing and bright young woman to someone who doesn’t recognise her own newborn daughter. The road ahead is going to be extremely difficult, there’s no two ways about it.
‘We just take every day as it comes because there’s not a lot we can do about it. I have a wife and now a little girl to look after. But she is my life and I am not giving up on her.’

Mr Doig said he was struggling to accept how his wife, who was once the ‘life of the party’, has become a virtual stranger.
‘She is like an 80-year-old going on five years old,’ he said. ‘She needs care 24/7. Her frontal, parietal and temporal lobes have all shrunk. She’s lost her recent memory and emotions  -  inspiration, joy, happiness.’

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