'Help save baby Asli' :: Mmegi Online

What should have been a year of first joy, first steps, and midnight lullabies has instead been a year of hospital corridors, emergency rooms, and difficult medical terms for the 31-year-old mother and 33-year-old father (names withheld as per parents' request for anonymity), whose baby girl is now fighting for her life. This weekend, staffer Sharon Mathala visited the family as they pleaded for financial support to help save baby Asli

Baby Asli turns one over the weekend, but there will be no grand celebration as her parents fight to save her life. The nightmare began shortly after what they describe as a normal birth. There were no complications during delivery. No alarming signs. It was only after they returned home that something seemed wrong.

“It was my mother who noticed her eyes were a bit yellowish. I didn’t know what was wrong with her,” Asli's mother recalls.

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