Our beautiful baby girl was born a few days after Christmas 2022 - finally, our family was complete! Shortly after delivery the midwives pointed out that she had a little ear - we didn't care and said "She's perfect" and she forever will be perfect bundle of joy!

Our journey of understanding more began as soon as we arrived home - immediately we were swamped with medical admin, hospital appointments all over London, and a lack of understanding of what our baby girl's little ear meant - We felt completely out of our depth. As appointments progressed, we soon found out she was born with a condition called Microtia - the hospital provided us the explanations we needed on what the condition was, however we didn't know what that would mean for our path going forward and what options / support would be available.

We found Microtia UK, a charity for those born with Microtia. Microtia UK supported us and guided us when we felt like we were drowning. They provided emotional support, but lots of useful information regarding the various tests we would undergo and different types of hearing aids that we could look into.

Microtia UK do fantastic work.

They support parents like us and children like our baby girl through their lives. We have been to a fantastic online and in person events where we have made life-long friends in a similar position to us. And we therefore want to raise awareness about microtia so as a collective we can work to continue to help families like ours.

We have had an immense amount of support from our families, so much so that Rita, Mitesh and Rajesh will be joining Ajay and running the 1/2 Marathon.

Please dig deep and help us raise as much money as possible for Microtia UK so they can continue to support other families like ours ❤️

https://www.microtiauk.org/

Nayna & Ajay