Does anyone know why my phone deletes my contacts and replaces them with another devices after i restore it to the origninal contacts?

i recently upgraded iPhones and so did my mum so when i was setting them up i linked the icloud between the two and since then my phone will only keep her contacts even if i restore my phone back to my old phones settings. when i have restored to my old phones settings it will hold the contacts i use to have for about 1-2mins and after that it will delete all of them and then replace with the numbers on my mums phone.. is there any way around this because i am getting frustrated that i cant access my old contacts. i have deleted the previous back ups to my old phone but has made no difference :/

Your problem is that just after restoring your device, it than syncs with icloud, finds that icloud has you mum's data and so deletes everything on your device and downloads her data.  The issue here is that you and your mum are using the same icloud account - you should each have your own account
Read this link, it covers how to recover from lost contacts from an icloud backup.  It's not quite what you need, but the discussion about how to stop syncing just after performing a restore is important to you.  Good luck.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841

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