Liam is mum Aimee Sloan's little miracle baby Gerard and Aimee Sloan with their baby Liam and Mix 102.3 presenter Jodie Oddy at the Women's and Children's Hospital. Picture: BRODIE CAMPBELL Source: adelaidenow CRADLING her perfect newborn boy in her arms, Aimee Sloan says it still hasn't sunk in that she is a mother. Before giving birth to Liam at 9.53am on January 20, the 28-year-old had suffered four heartbreaking miscarriages. Three years ago, and just one day after feeling her baby kick for the first time, Aimee went into labour. The baby was just 19 weeks and four days old. "It was after we lost our first little one that I realised how desperately I wanted to be a mum," the administration officer said. Tragically, she and husband Gerard, lost their second baby, a girl, at 15 weeks, their third at nine weeks and their fourth at 17 weeks. Struggling with the reality they may never have their own child, the Noarlunga Downs couple packed away the baby's room they had prepared and were told to consider surrogacy or adoption. Gerard says time has helped them recover from their devastating loss. "Plus good communication and having each other is what got us through," he says. But Gerard, 29, wanted to do something special for his wife after her fourth miscarriage, so he logged on to radio station MIX 102.3's website and entered the Mix Makes It Happen competition, hoping to win a day of pampering for Aimee. Mix breakfast presenter Jodie Oddy had just suffered her own miscarriage and knew the isolation and sadness Aimee would be experiencing. Aimee was going though exactly what I had just been through. I think the first time I spoke to her we were both just crying our eyes out," says Jodie, who is seven months pregnant with her third child. Miscarriage just does not get discussed enough in the public forum and you feel very alone. To help the couple, the MIX breakfast team booked an appointment at fertility clinic Repromed. It turned out Aimee didn't need it. One day before her appointment she found out she was pregnant. Having spent most of her pregnancy on bed rest, Aimee made it to 35 weeks before going into labour with Liam. "When he was born, he was so blue and not breathing so it took me back to when I lost my first one," Aimee says, fighting back tears. But then he started screaming and then he didn't stop screaming. It was the best scream we'd ever heard.