Inara Herdman was born via c-section almost a month early in September 2010, and survived a Severe Rightsided Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). Given a 5 percent chance of survival throughout the pregnancy and birth, she then overcame a major surgery to repair her diaphragm at 10 days old and spent a total of 62 days in Christchurch NICU.
At age two and a half Inara was taken to Austria, to a feeding clinic specialising in tube dependency and weaning to finally be able to eat unaided… To read more about Inara’s story as told on Stuff.co.nz by her mum Bonnie, click here
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