Hearing loss

How it effects a child: 

My child was born with microtia. It is only one in a million that is effected.

When my son was born the pediatrician showed me my baby and told me there is something wrong with his ear and that he will send a specialist the come and talk to me about my child's ear. 

In the beginning it was a lot to take in as a single mother going through my pregnancy journey all alone and now I have to face his microtia journey also alone. 

The specialist told me that he can hear just fine in his left ear. We went to a nose and throat specialist in Pretoria South-Africa he told me that he can only operate when my child is around 6 years old because then he have enough bone-structure to rebuild for him a ear with his rib as well. 

My child is wearing a soft band that is called a BAHA band. It was a struggle to get one because the medical aid at first didn't want to help us. We asked people for donations and even a radio station to help us to afford one. 

He is wearing his BAHA band everyday to school and it is making a big difference in his life.  

In America they are also further in technology then we are in South-Africa.  

We can take him to Red Cross Children Hospital to rebuild his ear but then he is going to be 6 months away from school and it is a lot of operations because they have to do it little by little. 

This is our everyday life and I am glad I have a support system with family and friends who doesn't stop praying for us.