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List of articles in this edition

Overcoming disability to shine – The Glow Stick Experience

Cerebral Palsy – Living one day at a time…

HIV from mum to child

When your child cannot read

Peanut allergies

Gifted child – What to do with her

Best food to give asthmatic kids

Split spine

Sickle cell anaemia – Handling it

Childhood Diabetes

Autism Mom Diary – Part 2: Useful lessons for an autism mom or dad

The Autism Test

Baby Nadya – My special gift from God

Autism Mom Diary – Part 3: Shopping with your autistic child

Cerebral palsy

The facts on Down’s Syndrome

Cancer and children – making their relationship easier

When your child is neither Boy nor Girl

Epilepsy – The seizures can be controlled

Cancer and children-making their relationship easier

Lost autistic child – how to mitigate flight risk

Child cerebral palsy inspired Susan’s Carevine Daycare

Mystery detectives: The Causes of Autism

Taking care of a hiv-positive baby

Eczema

Asthmatic Baby

Autism awareness and acceptance -Jaki Mathaga

Making adoption the first choice: Busting social myths that keep people from adopting

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My adopted daughter senses who her mum is – and I cannot explain this mystery………… Some years ago in 2012, I adopted my first, and currently my only child. I chose to adopt as a single and young parent (at 28), simply because I felt I had room in my life to give love and…

Child cerebral palsy inspired Susan’s Carevine Daycare

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Susan’s journey of hope – she emerged from utter stress and misplaced hopes to find her calling and live victoriously as a parent facing child cerebral palsy. My name is Susan Njeri. I am many things but most importantly I am a woman, a mother to three wonderful children – Princess, Prince and Parsley – and wife…

Taking care of a hiv-positive baby

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Pediatric AIDS means AIDS in children. It results from infection of a child with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which develops into full-blown Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV destroys the body’s ability to fight diseases thereby putting the infected person at risk of opportunistic illnesses like tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhoea and herpes, which may eventually lead…

Autism—Slow child brain development

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A mother’s perspective Akshana Shah can hardly keep her eyes off her son. It is outright that the constant attention shifting to him repeatedly after we exchange greetings is not only that of vigilance and concern, but that of admiration as well. The boy is the centre of her world. ‘When my son, Mikhil Shah,…

Baby had excess fluid in the head

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Handling hydrocephalus in babies in the womb When Ann came to the hospital at her 38th week of pregnancy together with her husband, she was not aware that she was carrying a hydrocephalus baby in her womb. They had come to book for labour and delivery. I explained to her our packages and asked her how…

 

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