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DOCTORS TOLD US TO SAY GOODBYE

Jaime Jenkins, 25, Parramatta, NSW

As the cold wand glided over my belly, I couldn’t wait to meet my bub.

After being told at 21 I was infertile due to hormone irregularities, I never thought I’d get to be a mum.

So when I fell pregnant in October 2014, my partner Jakob, then 22, and I were ecstatic. But during my first scan at 12 weeks, the sonographer revealed that the back of our baby’s neck was folded, advising it was

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