Marta adopted a girl who was rejected by her parents in childbirth. Irynka was one of the twins. The family took the healthy sister home, and Ira, who was born with a serious heart defect, was left in one of the capital’s hospitals.
Now Irynta is one year and 9 months old, and the woman cannot imagine how she could live without her daughter all her life.
“Right before the full-scale invasion, I had a baby, and I made one wish – to become a mother. I planned to do the in vitro fertilization procedure, but one phone call changed everything. A friend called with the words that in one of the maternity hospitals in the capital there is a little girl with a sick heart, who has no one in the whole white world. At that moment, something in my heart seemed to tingle,” Ms. Marta says.
The war began, Marta was very worried about the girl, whom she had not yet met, but whose fate worried her very much.
“Fear, panic, despair. Everyone around is in despair, and I feel like cats are scratching inside me – how is the little one in Kyiv, does she have medicine, or is nothing wrong with her. I hung up the phones of the hospital where the girl was lying. All the medical staff recognized me by my voice. I was familiar with the baby through the photos sent to me by the social worker and doctors,” the woman says.
Marta decided to do everything possible to transport the girl from the capital to Lviv. The safety and health of the child became the most important thing for her in the whole world.
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“Irynka was brought to the Lviv Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital “Okhmatdyt”. There I took her in my arms for the first time and drowned in those big and blue eyes. She was tiny. The world stopped and nothing existed around us. Then Irynochka was three months old,” Marta recalls these moments.
Given her health problems, there were no people willing to adopt Irynka. The woman began the process of drawing up documents to take the girl home and become her mother.
“I collected the documents quickly. I was greatly helped and supported by the management team of the Children’s Service of the Lviv City Council. The city and I are very lucky to have such a service. A week later, my daughter was already at home in her cozy crib.
A crib, a stroller, toys – all this filled my home so quickly that I could not understand how it was not there before, how before I lived without a bed. Yes, she has heart problems – they are very serious. Iryntsi had one operation at birth, when she was six months old, I went with her to Kyiv for the operation, which lasted more than 8 hours. In a few years we will have another operation, and in the future, when Donna will be 20, she will need a heart transplant. It did not scare me and it does not scare me, this is my child and I will do everything possible to make her happy.
Doctors and friends tell me that I gave Irynka life, considering her health problems. But, in fact, it was my daughter who gave it to me. This is my best decision in my entire life, because it made sense with the adoption of my daughter,” says Marta.
In January, Irynka will celebrate two years. She has a loving mother, as well as a large family, for whom the little one has become a family.
“If you are hesitating whether to adopt a child, don’t hesitate. Because this is the decision that is made, first of all, with the heart. So listen to him,” advises Irynka’s mother.
“To date, 392 children have been adopted in our community. 76 children expect to be given family warmth. There are 106 families in the queue of candidates for adoption. Our team does everything to ensure that children and parents meet,” says Volodymyr Frydrak, head of the “Children’s Service” department of the Lviv City Council.
P.S. For ethical reasons, the names of the Heroes of the material have been changed.