Baby hears again weeks after being adopted; deafness was caused by mucus

Mother Priscila Hiromi tried to share her story to encourage adoption

With so little time to live, a 1 year old baby already has a good story to tell. The little girl, unidentifiable because she is still in the adoption phase, was adopted by the spouses Priscila Hiromi, 38 years old, and Rafael Távora, 36 years old, as deaf child. To the parents’ surprise, a few weeks after arriving in the new home, the child was able to hear again.

The mother says that, at the time of the child’s birth, two tests had already been carried out to test her reflexes, which identified her deafness, demonstrating that she did not respond to any sound stimuli. After being adopted, Priscila took her for a new test.

“In that exam, the doctor found that he didn’t have any malformations in his ear, it wasn’t anything surgical. He said he didn’t really feel anything, but he believed it wasn’t irreversible,” recalls Priscila. The doctor pointed out that the girl may have discharge in the ear canal due to previous infections.

The parents then started a treatment with antibiotics, nasal washing, nebulization and chest physiotherapy. The type of milk the baby was drinking had also changed. “What she was taking produced more mucus,” said the mother, who explained that she switched to a no-milk protein option. After three weeks of treatment, the girl first showed hearing when she was frightened by the noise of a vacuum cleaner.

“She was playing with me and my mother-in-law, the little girl turned on the vacuum cleaner and cried. The first time she heard the noise,” says the mother. The mother-in-law’s reaction was to immediately call her parents to celebrate. “It was that joy,” Priscila recalls.

The couple took the girl back to a doctor, who found that she no longer suffered from deafness.

Love beyond disability

The breakthrough in the little girl’s case, of course, brought a lot of joy to the adoptive parents. However, for Priscila and Rafael, love goes far beyond any disability. When the two registered for adoption, they chose to be available to welcome children with some physical disabilities and treatable diseases.

“You fill out a form with the characteristics that you think the baby is capable of receiving. You can determine skin color, eye color, ethnicity, age, gender, several things. We put a very open profile, regardless of the whether it is a girl or boy, from 0 to 6 years old, regardless of physical characteristics and also that we have been able to accommodate someone with physical disability and treatable diseases,” says Priscila.

The couple waited for about two years in the adoption line. When the social worker called to say there was a baby available, she mentioned hearing loss and asked several times if that would be a problem. “We decided to continue. It was very fast, since it is a small child, they are in a hurry for the child to come to your house, for you to start bonding. From the day of the call until his arrival, it took six days”, says Priscila, who received the girl with three months to live.

The new mom says she wanted to share her story so she could encourage other couples — or interested single people — to adopt. “To encourage more people to have love no matter what, to seek adoption as an alternative, to be more open,” she explains.

“In adoption, when we enter, you enter with that thought like, I want a small child similar to my family, healthy … But this is not the reality, unfortunately, of children who end up in shelters. They are children who have had problems, they suffered trauma,” says Priscila.

Source: Terra

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