Holding our newborn Amelia in my arms, I felt so lucky.
‘She's perfect,’ smiled my husband Tony.
Since we'd married in June 2007, we knew we wanted a house full of kids.
And Amelia, born on Tony's 31st birthday, was baby number six!
Along with her siblings Landon, then 7, Emma, 6, Lily, 4, Sophie, 3, and Tanner, 2, she was everything we'd dreamt of.
Not that our life was perfect – Tony had been diagnosed with a brain tumour, an astrocytoma, eight years earlier.
Low grade at first, so although Tony needed surgery, he could
