Our baby boy was born too soon—at just 25 weeks—on September 19, 2025, at Apollo Medics Super Speciality Hospitals in Lucknow. He is our little fighter, but his battle is far from over. As a preterm baby, his lungs are unfinished, and his skin is paper-thin. Right after birth, everything became an emergency. He was immediately put on special machines to breathe, placed under blue lights for jaundice, and fed through tiny tubes, with medicines dripping into veins the width of threads. We press our palms against the incubator, desperately hoping he can feel us, as his life hangs on the sophisticated equipment of the NICU.
The fight is not his alone; his mother, Arpita, is fighting beside him. Pregnancy ending too early has left her body shaken. Her stitches ache, and her arms feel painfully empty. Though she has been discharged, she suffers from extreme exhaustion, weakness, and the profound mental strain of hearing alarms in her sleep and whispering to her son through the glass. The constant stress and uncertainty pull on her body and mind, demanding rest, stability, and nutrition to truly heal from a delivery her body wasn't ready for.
His health changes every hour, and so does hers. We are on a thin line between hope and fear. Our baby needs machines to breathe and round-the-clock specialised care to survive and grow stronger. Simultaneously, Arpita needs crucial care, medication, and stability to recover physically and mentally from this ordeal. The funding we are asking for must cover both battles: his ongoing life-saving NICU treatment and her essential post-delivery recovery costs, which include medications and specialised care.
I am the sole earner for our family, and we have already spent lakhs. Hospital corridors have taught me how small money can feel when life is on the line. Every bill is another mountain I must climb. We have no land to mortgage and no gold to sell. At home, his two little sisters wonder why their mother stays away, and his grandfather dreams of teaching him to walk. Our simple dream is to bring both Arpita and our son home, safe and whole.
Your donation will be directly allocated to funding our son’s critical NICU expenses—the ventilator charges, life-saving medications, and specialised care—and Arpita's urgent recovery needs, including her essential post-discharge medications, follow-up appointments, and nutritional support. We are asking for a chance: a chance for our baby to grow stronger, and a chance for his mother to heal.
Please help us hold our family together. If you ever want to know how strong love can be, watch a mother whisper strength into an incubator, then sit down to catch her breath before she falls apart.
The goal amount of the campaign may be higher than the attached estimates to address and aid the post-hospitalization expenses/contingencies including but not limited to prolonged medication, diagnostics, rehabilitation therapies, and follow-up doctor visits/consultations which vary from disease to disease.
