When Emma Murray’s son was born, she was told there was no way he could survive as he was born with only the tiniest part of a brain.
So, when little Aaron muttered the words “mummy”, it was nothing short of a miracle.
“The doctors told me if it had been any of his other organs which had failed to grow, they would have been able to do something but they couldn’t grow him another brain,” Emma, 24, tells Mirror.
“But right from the very beginning, Aaron proved he is a real fighter.”
“The other day I was saying ‘Mummy’ to him. I was clapping my hands and he was giggling away.”
“He looked at me, and said ‘Mummy’ back. I couldn’t believe it.”
Aaron, who is now two years old, was born with a rare condition called holoprosencephaly which means he was born with only a brain stem and not a full brain.
“I’d been told my son would only live for a few minutes, but now here he was saying ‘Mummy’ – something I never thought I would ever hear.”
How beautiful.
