

"I was told that many people terminate the pregnancy at that stage because the baby could be born severely brain damaged but I decided to continue with it. "Her spine is split from her chest down and they also said there was a lot fluid on her brain. She said: "I was 22 weeks pregnant when I went for a scan and that's when they picked up that Amber had the most severe type of spina bifida.

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