Valeria has completed the first stage of rehabilitation!

Valeria was born in Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, on 22 September 2015 at 28-29 weeks weighing 970 grams and 32 cm tall. The girl's mother suffered intermittent high blood pressure during pregnancy, which led to gestosis, and doctors performed an emergency caesarean section at 28-29 weeks of pregnancy. Then the fight for the life of the 970-gram baby began... A month and a half of resuscitation on the ventilator, various medications. Among them were antibiotics, including ototoxic ones that had to be given to Valeria to save her life. Unfortunately, this treatment had affected her hearing... All the diagnoses that were given to Valeria during birth she and her parents managed to treat during the first months of her life. In the 12th month of her life Valeria's parents noticed that she could not hear. They achieved with difficulty examinations at the clinic and at the age of 1 year and 3 months her suspicions were confirmed: the girl has been diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss degree 4. First she was treated for otitis, then she had to undergo surgery. Finally, when Valeria was 2, she underwent cochlear implantation, one month later she was fitted with the hearing aid and she began to learn to hear the world. It is not enough just to put the device on - everyday rehabilitation is needed to teach her daughter to hear and to speak. Today, thanks to the rehab sessions Valeria has already had, she can speak, she can hear a little, she became an active, a curious, a smiling, and a friendly girl. She loves to sing and play board games. This year she had an operation on her second ear, and now she can hear a little with both ears! In the year or so, Valeria should be going to school, but in order to be admitted to a usual school with normotypical children she needs to undergo several rehabilitation courses, to stabilize the results of the surgery at the rehabilitation centre "Tosha and Co" in the town Fryazino near Moscow. The rehabilitation course is lengthy and consists of three stages. The baby's parents will have to pay 70,000 roubles for the first stage. Let's help Valeria together to fulfil her dream to go to school and to have a full life!