BORN WITH NO HANDS but nothing will stop my boy

Shirin Jelil, 31, Melbourne, Vic

Lying down on the hospital bed, I felt a rush of nerves and excitement as I clutched my husband Layth’s hand. We were at my 20-week scan.

There had already been joy as we’d found out I was carrying a boy, which meant another brother for our gorgeous sons, Ibrahim, four, and Mazzin, two.

But when the sonographer brought a doctor into the room,