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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

Raising a son as a single dad

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His relationship did not work out but that does not deter him from bringing up his son with the help of family members. Rama Mlambo shares his solo story with BabyLove. First days after delivery I took my partner, Nuru to the hospital and stood by her as she delivered our son, Khatib. That was…

Adoption – Should I Should I Not?

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I was worried for a long time that I was not qualified to parent a little girl………. I am a single young woman. I have decided to adopt a lovely little girl. I made that decision four years ago. But my baby isn’t home yet. Why? Because I am part of a society that believes…

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…

 

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