Watching toddler Mikayla Kelly tear around her W loungeroom at full speed, there's no hint that her life was ever in danger.
But more than two years after giving birth to her precious girl, who was born missing half of her left forearm, Sydney mum Tamika Bax still gets emotional when she thinks of her pregnancy.
The 30-year-old, who has two other children, Isaac, 11, Savannah, seven, and stepson, Maison, 13, fell pregnant with Mikayla four months after suffering a miscarriage, and says she was "extremely paranoid" when she arrived at her 19-week routine scan.
But her anxiety went into overdrive when the sonographer couldn't locate her baby's arm while measuring her growth.
"The technician was silent, and I could hear my heart thumping in my ears," recalls Tamika. "I asked if there was something wrong and he said, 'Yes,' and left to get another doctor to take a look. I sat up and I couldn't breathe, then I started bawling my eyes out."
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