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MichellaDale,47,Brighton
PLASTICFANTASTIC
W
alking through
the park, I
watched a little
girl swing from
the monkey
bars,
as another caught
a tennis ball with
both hands.
Looking down
at my partner
Natalie’s bump,
I knew that those
simple acts might
not be possible for
our own daughter.
It was April
2013, and we’d
just had our 20-week scan.
First, there’d been joy.
‘You’re having a girl,’ the
sonographer had said.
But then upsetting news.
‘Your baby doesn’t have
a left hand,’ she’d explained.
It’d been a lot to take.
Me and Natalie, then 29,had
been together for four years.
Having a child had been
all we’d dreamt of.
But now we were waiting
for an appointment with
a specialist at the Royal
Marsden Hospital.
There, they
explained that our
daughter had amniotic
band syndrome.
It’s a birth defect
which prevents limbs
growing normally.
Fibrous, string-like
tissue had wrapped
around our baby’s arm.
It’d restricted the blood
flow, stopping it forming.
‘Have I done something
wrong?’Nataliepanicked.
‘Ofcoursenot,’I’dsaid.
Therewasnothing
eitherof uscould’vedone.
Ourgorgeousdaughter
LottieWilson-DalewasbornbySUPER
planned Caesarean in October
2013 at Royal Sussex Hospital.
We were prepared that she’d
be different. But, mesmerised
by her beautiful face, her
sweet cry, we
barely noticed
her missing hand.
Bringing
Lottie home was
magical – we were
a family at last.
Our friends
and family visited
us, doting on
little Lottie.
‘She’s beautiful,’
they cooed.
Wheeling her about in the
buggy, strangers sometimes
stared at the empty space
where her arm should be.
Instead, she had a little hook,
where partially grown fingers
had fused together.
But, in love with our
adorable
baby,Baby Lottie
was just
adorable