17/11/2025
💜🎀World Prematurity Day🎀💜
Celebrating all the wonderful children and their families…
Not long after my eighth birthday my brother, Gabor was born prematurely. Gabor was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy shortly after. My mother shared her thoughts about her experiences bringing up a child using the principles of Conductive Education in a short story entitled ‘Gábor’s Book’.
‘On the 4th March, for the first time, I was allowed to touch his silky-delicate, membranous skin. He was due to be born around that day. And we could take him home around that day.
Tamara, our younger daughter eagerly welcomes the huge parcel. When we unwrap him, she is astonished as if she was expecting anything but this, it is beyond her imagination.
‘Baby!’ she exclaims with pleasure.
Indila, the older daughter rushes home from school. She had planned to dress up as a paediatrician from the NICU for the school fair and we had already purchased a plastic box to pretend to be a portable incubator for this baby - Gabor. She was looking at Gabor without realising that he would determine her career choice.’ (Simandi, 1994 p.60)
Original Hungarian passage:
‘Március 4-én érinthetem meg először selymes-finom, hártyaszerű bőrét. A napokban született volna. És a napokban hazavihetjük.
Tamara, a kisebbik lányunk lelkesen fogadja a hatalmas csomagot. Amikor kibontjuk, megdöbben, mint aki minden mást várt, de ezt el sem tudta képzelni.
- Baba! – kiált fel örömében.
Indila, a nagyobbik rohan haza az iskolából. A farsangi bálon koraszülött-orvos akart lenni, vettünk is egy műanyag dobozt hordozható inkubátornak a baba-Gábor számára. Csak nézi Gábort, és nem is sejti, hogy ő fogja majd irányítani pályaválasztását.’ (Simandi, 1994 p.60)
