In the quiet village of Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh lived a couple who had been praying for one blessing for six long years. They wanted a child of their own.
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, a humble private school teacher, and his wife Mrs. Shilpi carried this hope in their hearts every single day.
After years of waiting and disappointment, they gathered their courage, their savings, and the support of their loved ones and decided to go for IVF.
When the result came positive, their joy was beyond words.
For the first time in years, their home felt full of smiles, full of dreams, and full of hope.
Life, however, had a painful twist waiting for them.
At only twenty seven weeks of pregnancy, long before they could choose baby names or prepare tiny clothes, Shilpi suddenly went into premature labour.
She delivered two extremely premature babies, so tiny and delicate that they could fit in her palms.
One of the babies, despite the best efforts of the doctors, could not survive.
Shilpi broke down.
Sanjeev went silent.
The dream they had waited six years for slipped away before they could even hold their child.
Their second baby, born weighing only eight hundred grams, is still fighting for his life every single moment.
He is currently in the NICU at Neoclinic Children Hospital in Jaipur and is battling several life threatening medical conditions including respiratory distress, respiratory failure, acute kidney injury, a small hole in the heart, severe infection, and the complications of being an extremely low birth weight premature baby.
He breathes with the help of machines.
Every day brings a new challenge.
Every heartbeat is a small victory.
To survive, he needs prolonged NICU care, oxygen support, lifesaving medicines, and constant monitoring.
The expected medical cost is more than seven lakh fifty thousand rupees. This amount is completely out of reach for a small town school teacher.
Sanjeev and Shilpi have already borrowed money from relatives and friends, sold whatever they could, and exhausted every resource they had.
Now they stand at a heartbreaking point where they must watch their baby fight for life while worrying about how long they can afford to keep him alive.
They have no one else to turn to. They are placing all their hope in the kindness of people like you.
