Sweet Xander SAVED BY A MOTHER’S LOVE

Kirsty Carr, 26, Launceston, Tas

Isn’t he cute?’ I said to my partner, Wesley, 33. ‘Yes, he sure is,’ Wes smiled.

I was pregnant with our first child, a boy, and at 14 weeks, we were seeing him for the first time on a scan. But our excitement quickly turned to terror. ‘His bladder looks a bit enlarged,’ the sonographer frowned, sending us to the Royal Hobart Hospital for tests.

‘He has a rare blockage in his urethra called a PUV – posterior urethral valve