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THEY SAID HE’D NEVER WALK, NOW HE CAN RUN!

Maddie Evans, 34, Geelong, Vic

As I pushed our baby into the world, I was thrilled the birth was the natural one I’d wanted.

‘It’s a boy,’ the midwife smiled.

It was wonderful news.

What was not wonderful was the open lesion I spotted immediately at the base of our baby’s spine.

Protruding out of it was a little sack of fluid and his tiny spinal cord.

‘What’s wrong?’ I gasped.

Nobody was able to tell us right

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