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Nastya is growing well and has gained three kilograms!

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Thanks to intravenous nutrition and your kindness, the girl is growing!

“You have an ordinary child, she’s just being fed through an IV,” the doctor told Katya’s mother at the discharge. After leaving the hospital, the Nikitin family had very little left in terms of nutrition supplies and IV equipment – and you took them under your kind care.

“Nastya is growing so well, gaining weight,” Katya is delighted. “She loves to go for walks – she falls asleep right away in the fresh air.” I think it’s because in the intensive care unit, where she spent six months, no one really wrapped her up, so she got used to the coolness.”

With the smell of food and the supplies for the IVs, Katya’s mother felt a weight lifted from her heart. And just a few months ago, she had a daughter in her arms with a frightening short‑gut syndrome that required intensive care after surgeries, and who needed to be connected to an IV with therapeutic nutrition for 16 hours a day. But thanks to you, tubers, the baby is at home with the family, cooing, trying solid foods, developing and growing. “So many people have gathered around us who turned out to care about us.... Thank you so much!”

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Nastya needs food: the baby can only eat through a vein

Nastya's small intestine is only 70 centimeters long. And the elements necessary for life and development (fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins) She receives special nutrition through an IV drip. In order for Nastya to have the strength to wait for the issuance of everything she needs from the state, she needs our support.

Nastya is the second of the twins, born prematurely. Problems with the intestines were revealed immediately: Nastya's stomach was swollen with milk. Necrotizing enterocolitis. Multiple operations. And the need to feed through a catheter in a vein for 18 hours a day – otherwise the girl will not be able to absorb all the nutrients.

The family has the right to receive everything they need (both food and drugs themselves, as well as supplies for setting ivs — syringes, infusion bags, lines, napkins, antiseptics, and more) from the state. But it takes a long time to purchase a huge list of things that a child needs and to provide for a policy. And tiny Nastya needs her "food" every day! And then, in a couple of years, together with the girl on parenteral mixtures, her intestines will begin to grow, which means that it will be possible to get away from ivs and live a normal life. If we can help you now.