A little girl born with one hand is determined to become a professional gymnast - without the use of a prosthetic.<br /><br />Seven-year-old Millie Sinnott has Symbrachydactyly, a congenital condition that causes abnormally short fingers.<br /><br />Her upper-limb difference means she has a thumb but no palm or fingers on her left arm.<br /><br />She “fell in love” with gymnastics aged three and has moved up the grades at the same pace as the able-bodied students.<br /><br />The determined little girl refuses to use a prosthetic limb and can even perform cartwheels on the high beam and bars unaided.<br /><br />Millie is the only student at her club with a disability and she is "proud" to be different.<br /><br />She dreams of becoming a paralympian, but there is currently no gymnastics in the games, so along with mum Kathryn Sinnott, 27, they're campaigning to get the sport added.<br /><br />Kathryn, a teaching assistant, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, said: “We didn’t know until she was born about her hand, but she never lets it stop her.<br /><br />“There's never been any pressure on her to do more or achieve more, it's just what she wants to do - in every aspect she just wants to do it.<br /><br />“She’s on her own way and she’s always amazed everyone.<br /><br />"She calls it ‘thumby’ and she’s really proud of it and makes jokes around it all the time.”<br /><br />Doctors spotted the limb difference when Millie was born in Lister Hospital, Stevenage, weighing in at 7lbs and 6oz on 11 September 2015.<br /><br />She got her first prosthetic from Stanmore Hospital in the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital when she was two-and-a-half years old to help her ride her scooter.<br /><br />When she was three years old, Millie wanted to start gymnastics to do roly-polys, and began in the younger group, doing acrobatics and tumbling.<br /><br />She received a new prosthetic hand to help her on the bars at her gymnastic class but decided to go without.<br /><br />“They got her a prosthetic for gymnastics which was really good, but it’s taken her a long time to find out what she needed," Kathryn continues.<br /><br />“She tried it for a little while but found it easier without it."<br /><br />Millie joined the older gymnastics group in 2021 to try different equipment, where she has gone from strength to strength, moving up four grades over two years.<br /><br />Kathryn said: “It’s such a passion of hers and she’s now constantly doing it.<br /><br />"Even when she hurts herself, she gets up and keeps going.”<br /><br />Millie experiences pain in her thumb, which is fully formed but much thinner, unlike that of an able-bodied person.<br /><br />When she does gymnastics the muscles in her thumb have to work harder and take on a great deal of extra strain.<br /><br />Kathryn said: “Millie is very accident prone, and she's had a few falls.<br /><br />“Recently she was at a summer camp, and she fell off the bars and fell on her left arm and hurt herself.<br /><br />“The hospital is very used to her though; she gets in a sling, and she’s sent home.”<br /><br />In June, Millie won the vault category in her club’s competition, where she was competing against thirty other girls.<br /><br />This victory made her even mor
