I Left My Baby for My Job ; What Kind of Woman Turns Her Back On Her Own Child? When Social Worker Fiona's Marriage Ended, It Was She Who Walked Away From Her Four-Year-Old Son. Here She Admits Her Only Regret Is That He Was Ever Born at All Femailmagazine

Daily Mail › March 02, 2006

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SOCIAL worker Fiona Sykiotis, 29, never wanted to be a mum and an unplanned pregnancy ripped her marriage apart. So when she and husband David separated four months ago, Fiona made the heartbreaking decision to ask him to take their son, Alexander, four. Here she tells ANGELA CARLESS why

EVERY morning, before work, I pick up the phone and call my little boy, Alexander. We always have the same conversation.

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I Left My Baby for My Job ; What Kind of Woman Turns Her Back On Her Own Child? When Social Worker Fiona's Marriage Ended, It Was She Who Walked Away From Her Four-Year-Old Son. Here She Admits Her Only Regret Is That He Was Ever Born at All Femailmagazine

'Hello darling, how did you sleep?' I'll ask, and he chatters back about his day ahead at nursery school.

He's four now and learning something new every day. Then I sign off by blowing him a kiss and telling him to be a good boy for his Daddy. It puts my mind at rest to know he's so well and happy. For, you see, since last November I have become a part-time mum - an arrangement that leaves me free to concentrate on my career.

Today, Alex lives with his father, David, in a three-bedroom house in Essex, while I live 220 miles away in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in the twobedroom cottage that the three of us used to call home.

Of course, Alex wants his mummy. I ...

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