By the time she fell pregnant with her eldest daughter she’d already endured several rounds of in vitro fertilisation and had experienced a traumatic miscarriage at 22 weeks. As a result she was constantly worried as she carried little Liané to term and she battled to form a bond with her unborn baby – something that seemed to carry on long after the birth. Lauren Dickason’s pregnancy journey certainly wasn’t easy, a New Zealand court heard when forensic psychiatrist Dr Erik Monasterio provided his statements as an expert witness for the prosecution.
