Help Ivanna stand on her own feet. Stage 2

One young family expected addition. They were overjoyed when they found out that there would be not one child, but two. But five months into pregnancy, mother heard the terrible words: "One fetus died ..." The silent emptiness of the soul ... an endless stream of tears ... want to howl from grief! It was hard for mom to pull herself together and continue to carry under the heart children knowing that one of them will never see her, never say the first word, and never take a first step. Only Ivanka was born, but with cerebral palsy.

Little Ivanka was born at 7th months with a weight of 1 490 grams. After the birth, she began to struggle with severe cerebral palsy disease, which does not allow her to live a full life. Ivanka have to undergo a rehabilitation course every 2-3 months. She wants to learn to walk, run, and dance.

Every day a child spends in a hard struggle with her disease: she is involved in swimming, gymnastics, hippotherapy and does rehabilitation courses in RCDC in Kremenchug, dolphin therapy in Skadovsk. Very good results Ivanka achieves in the International Clinic of Rehabilitation in Truskavets. She learned to sit up, roll over, sit down, crawl, move at the support, walk holding hand, and take the first steps that given to her with difficulty.

There is no stopping now. Ivanka is now preparing for a trip to the Medical Center of physical therapy and pain medicine Innovo in Lviv.

Let us support Ivanka in her hard struggle and give her a chance to be a complete, healthy and happy baby! We believe that she will succeed! After all, she has to live for two!

Name: Ivanna R. Karapuz, born 03.12.2011

Location: Poltava region, Kremenchuk

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic diplegia, equinvarus feet deformity