Inside Sophie Delezio's baby nursery as she prepares to welcome ...
Sophie Delezio shouldn't be alive today.
She defied death twice by the time she was five, but the now-23-year-old and her devoted fiance Joseph Salerno will soon welcome their biggest miracle - a baby boy.
"[I'm feeling] very good, very pregnant, very tired, very much over this, but loving every part of the journey," Delezio told A Current Affair.
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For a young woman who has faced so much, there's a refreshing optimism to Delezio. (Nine)We first heard Delezio's name in December 2003 when a car crashed into her daycare centre, where the two-year-old was taking a nap.
She suffered third-degree burns to 90 per cent of her body and lost both feet, one of her hands and her ear.
Three years later, in May 2006, a bright-eyed Delezio was tested again.
"So I was crossing the road and a driver got blinded by the sun and hit my stroller, flew 18 meters in the air, landed head first on the pavement," she recalled.
"Yeah, simple as that, again, freak accident."
We first heard Delezio's name in December 2003 when a car crashed into her daycare centre, where the two-year-old was taking a nap. (Nine)For a young woman who has faced so much, there's a refreshing optimism to Delezio.
"I've made peace with it. There's nothing I can do to change it, no matter what," she said of her ordeals.
Salerno shared he was "the happiest I've ever been" to be welcoming a child with Delezio.
"I'm over the moon," he said.
Their love story began as a friendship more than a decade ago.
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Salerno shared he was "the happiest I've ever been" to be welcoming a child with Delezio. (Nine)"I think once she came back from [studying in] London and we started catching up, even our friendship blossomed even more," Joseph said.
"I just knew I'm not gonna wait another year or two to figure it out.
"I just knew what I wanted."
Delezio said she anticipated her other half to be "a beautiful dad".
"He is really a very kind and caring guy and I know he's just going to look after little bubba so well," she said.
Delezio has teamed up with DrinkWise throughout her pregnancy.
"I think supporting a cause like fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, it is 100 per cent preventable," she said.
"It's not impacting your life, it's impacting someone else's life, at the end of the day your child, coming into this world, and I think, give them the best opportunity possible to thrive."
Ahead of International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day on September 9, Delezio is joining DrinkWise and key medical practitioners to advise women on the importance of abstaining from alcohol when planning a pregnancy, during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
For more information on DrinkWise's annual FASD campaign, please visit DrinkWise.org.au.
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