“She’s just 6 months old and she’s been on the ventilator twice already. Her lungs are compressed and every day, her breathing becomes lesser and lesser, but I know that we won’t give up without a fight. She is stronger than anyone I know.” – Manish, Ojaswi’s father6-month-old Ojaswi was born with a rare but deadly defectUnable to breathe or even swallow food, 6-month-old Ojaswi entered the world with a rare defect known as congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Simply put, this means that there is a hole in the baby’s diaphragm causing her lungs to get squished because of other organs.“After birth, when we took her home, she wouldn’t breastfeed at all. She would find it so hard to breathe and when she was 2 months old she was already suffering from pneumonia. She had to be put on the ventilator. Seeing such a small baby already fighting for her life is something no parent should go through. It was devastating. Not only that, she also needed feeding tubes because that’
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