The Farmer Parents Of This Baby Are Counting Minutes Outside The OT Hoping That His Heart Doesn't Stop

“Just 5 days ago, doctor told me that my baby is critical and he needed surgery. We are standing outside the OT hoping my baby doesn’t die. Even if he survives the surgery, he will be critical and will need life support. Every passing moment is scarier and I hope they save him.”Shankhar is the 1-month-old baby of Lavanya and Lakshmaiah. His illness showed as just slight breathlessness. But just 5 days ago, his breathing became very laboured. They brought baby Shankhar to Hyderabad where they were told that he would not make it without a surgery.“My 2-year-old daughter, Pranitha was so excited when we told her she would get a sibling to play with. This is the reason we wanted two children. Both Lavanya and I work in the farms the entire day. Our children will have each other. I am not sure if my daughter will see her brother again. He has to survive.”Shankhar, has a severe congenital heart condition called double aortic arch, which is a severe abnormality in the heart. This e
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The Farmer Parents Of This Baby Is Counting Minutes Outside The OT Hoping That His Heart Doesn't Stop B

“Just 5 days ago, doctor told me that my baby is critical and he needed surgery. We are standing outside the OT hoping my baby doesn’t die. Even if he survives the surgery, he will be critical and will need life support. Every passing moment is scarier and I hope they save him.”Shankar is the 1-month-old baby of Lavanya and Lakshmaiah. His illness showed as just slight breathlessness. But just 5 days ago, his breathing became very laboured. They brought baby Shankar to Hyderabad where they were told that Shankar would not make it without a surgery.“My 2-year-old daughter, Pranitha was so excited when we told her she would get a sibling to play with. This is the reason we wanted two children. Both Lavanya and I work in the farms the entire day. Our children will have each other. I am not sure if my daughter will see her brother again. He has to survive.”Shankar, has a severe congenital heart condition called double aortic arch, which is a severe abnormality in the heart. This
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Baby Likith Is In The Last Stages Of Liver Failure And Doesn't Have Much Time

“I don't have the strength to carry him anymore. My 7-month-old baby weighs 9kgs. I can only stare at him as he lies on his back struggling to carry his own weight.” - Srilatha, Likith's mother.Even the comfort of being carried in his parents' arms is no longer possible for Likith. When picked up by his parents, he feels better just for a while. Soon, being held also becomes painful for him and he starts crying disconsolately. Only a liver transplant can reduce the abnormal swelling in his stomach and end this baby's constant agony. Every happy moment for this baby has come in small snatchesLikith became sick soon after his birth – by the time he was 3-months-old. His bile duct was blocked and he needed an immediate surgery to prevent liver damage. His parents Nagaraju and Srilatha took him to a good hospital in Tamil Nadu. The surgery was a success and little Likhit looked better.In just another month, he became sick again. His parents took him to a lot of doctors in their hom
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Pramila And Santosh Had Twin Daughters After A Long Wait Of 15 Years But They Are In The NICU Fighting For Their Lives

“One of our babies is able to at least feed now, the other one still can’t digest it. It’s heartbreaking to look at them through the window, and see them on ventilator, battling for their life, even before they got a taste of it.”Santosh and Pramila Shukla have been married and childless for 15 years. They were finally happy that they were going to be parents after this long a wait. But things didn’t go as they had planned and instead of preparing to welcome their children, they’re at the hospital, looking at their prematurely born daughters struggling to even breathe.Pramila's pregnancy took a terrible turnPramila and Santosh tried everything they could, to conceive. When they finally conceived, they thanked their stars for finally giving them what they wanted so much. They were overjoyed to learn that they were having twins. Everything was perfect until the night things fell apart for them.Pramila was advised bed-rest by the doctors owing to her weak health and late pre
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This 9-year-old Prays To God To Help Her Body Make Blood Again, But Only Urgent Treatment Can Save Her

9-year-old Sthuti Chavhan dreads anything that has to do with hospitals. Because, once a week, her nose bleeds profusely. As soon as this happens, she has to be rushed to the hospital for a blood transfusion. Sthuti has aplastic anaemia, a condition in which the body stops producing new blood cells. Even the sight of the hospital entrance reduces her to tears. But her condition is so severe that if she misses even one transfusion, it can be fatal.Just two months ago that Sthuti was diagnosed with this rare diseaseOne day, while returning from school, Sthuti noticed that her nose was bleeding. She wiped it away with her handkerchief and even tried washing it off, but the bleeding wouldn’t stop. She went running to her parents who made her lie down. In a few hours, she got a fever too. “She was very scared. She hadn’t seen such a lot of blood in her life before. She thought she was going to die. Tests showed her platelet levels were very low and that her haemoglobin count was o
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The Only Difference Between 1-year-old Siddhi And Her Twin Sister Is A 1 Kilo Tumor In Her Liver

“The doctor said that if we decided to treat her, she’d have only 20% chances of getting out of this. It was devastating to hear that this disease has a cure, but it could even kill my baby girl. We were not prepared to lose her, so we decided to fight.”Siddhi recently turned 1 year old. Every day goes in trying to get her to say ‘Mamma’ and ‘Dada’. Navin and Akanksha challenge each other, and wager on what her first word would be. These are the only happy moments in their lives these days, at least, ever since Siddhi was diagnosed with cancer and given just 20% chance of survival.This baby girl is a twin but something grave differentiates her from her sisterFor Navin and Akanksha, this pregnancy was extremely exciting. ‘We always wanted a child. We were happy to get pregnant. I began showing very early. It was not quite normal, but I thought our baby was growing fast. When I went in for the scan, we found out that we were having twins! I secretly wished to have twins
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It Seems Like Our 3-month-old Baby Is Suffering Due To Our Choice To Give Him Life – We Need Help Saving Him

When I first held my baby lying on the hospital bed, I knew I had entered a new phase of my life. My 3-month-old baby, Taksh gave me the joy of motherhood for the very first time. But I never knew that my happiness came with suffering for my baby.After two years of my marriage with Pankaj, the arrival of Taksh completed our family. We live in Delhi. I worked in a small institution as an education counsellor before my pregnancy. Pankaj has recently started his own business and a lot of investment has gone for into the business.What looked like jaundice was much worse than we thoughtMy baby was born fine and I was discharged a day after his birth. In March, before taking Taksh for his usual vaccination, we observed a little yellowness of his eyes. We went to the doctors and asked for tests for jaundice. The tests reports didn’t show any visible problem. But the yellowness of the eyes kept increasing, also his stool was becoming white. We knew something was wrong with our baby. Panka
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