KOLKATA: Ballygunge resident Jeeja Ghosh has damaged many ceilings and has had many firsts. The 48-year-old added yet one more to the checklist ultimate week, changing into the first individual born with cerebral palsy in Kolkata — and most likely India — to become an adoptive mother.
Motherhood was once a dream that Ghosh, born with the situation, nursed since she tied the knot in 2013. But little did she know in regards to the hurdles she would have to face ahead of being thought to be fit for adopting a five-month-old girl. Last Thursday, after an epic struggle, Ghosh welcomed house a girl kid — lovingly referred to as Bhujungu and Sonai at house — to her ninth-floor flat at the Saptaparni advanced on Ballygunge Circular Road.
Ghosh, a Presidency College graduate and Delhi University postgraduate, and her husband, Bappaditya Nag, a regulation officer of Syndicate Bank, implemented for adoption in 2016. Madhusmita Nayak, programme manager for the specialised adoption company mission at Keonjhar’s Self-Realisation Mission (SRM), from the place the child was once adopted, mentioned the infant was once born in January 2018 and was once abandoned at a Keonjhar health facility. “We don’t find out about her biological folks,” Nayak mentioned.
It was once love to start with sight for the couple when they noticed the yet-unnamed kid at SRM. But it needed more than one trips to Keonjhar to persuade the adoption committee that Ghosh generally is a responsible care-giver. “We submitted a fit certificates from a gynaecologist but even after that the committee informed us this certificates was once not appropriate because it had to be issued through a ‘medical practitioner’,” Nag mentioned.
It was once an uphill struggle since then and, after a lot of mails and reminders, the couple after all escalated the subject to Dr Sadaf Nazneen, marketing consultant (japanese area), Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).
Parents to find queries intrusive, officers say no intent to hurt
On Tuesday, Dr Sadaf Nazneen, of CARA informed TOI, “It must be checked whether or not the couple is emotionally, bodily and financially appropriate to undertake a child. This was once the first case the place a father or mother with cerebral palsy was once concerned with adoption. It will stay as a reference point for different such packages in future. Some questions might have seemed uncomfortable but they have been in all probability requested to judge the suitability of the circle of relatives adopting the infant.”
Jeeja Ghosh and her husband, then again, don't purchase this argument. “I felt so humiliated with the questions they requested. The district kid coverage officer described cerebral palsy as a ‘mental disease’ and expressed apprehensions about my communique abilities. I fail to understand how any person in that position could have such ideas,” Ghosh alleged.
TOI spoke to the officer, Debangana Barik, who mentioned she “did not wish to hurt” Ghosh at all. “My language factor might have created a problem. I am very inspired along with her personality and she or he is completely fit to handle the infant. Her adoption case is a luck tale for all people here,” Barik added. But the brand new folks’ legal paintings remains to be not over. Bhujungu is, legally, in Ghosh’s and Nag’s foster care at this time. “We are going to file a court software in Keonjhar soon and, inside 60 days of that, we think to get the order that will make us her legal folks,” Ghosh mentioned.
The Saptaparni flat has gone through a sea change, with nappies, oil cloth and feeding bottles strewn all over the place the drawing room. Both folks are on go away now. Bhujungu has a twinkle in her eyes when Ghosh rocks the pram. She tilts her head and then lazily rests her little ft at the pram maintain. Friends and kinfolk are losing through often with cartloads of presents for the infant. Nag, too, is an entire hands-on father, from feeding Bhujungu to cleaning her when she soils herself. Ghosh’s octogenarian mother, a dementia patient, is overjoyed. Seated in a wheelchair just about the pram, she intermittently utters the infant’s name aloud. On uncommon events, when reminiscence serves her proper, seeing Ghosh and her daughter is a reminder for the previous girl of her own motherhood stories of combating against odds to bring up a daughter.
Motherhood was once a dream that Ghosh, born with the situation, nursed since she tied the knot in 2013. But little did she know in regards to the hurdles she would have to face ahead of being thought to be fit for adopting a five-month-old girl. Last Thursday, after an epic struggle, Ghosh welcomed house a girl kid — lovingly referred to as Bhujungu and Sonai at house — to her ninth-floor flat at the Saptaparni advanced on Ballygunge Circular Road.
Ghosh, a Presidency College graduate and Delhi University postgraduate, and her husband, Bappaditya Nag, a regulation officer of Syndicate Bank, implemented for adoption in 2016. Madhusmita Nayak, programme manager for the specialised adoption company mission at Keonjhar’s Self-Realisation Mission (SRM), from the place the child was once adopted, mentioned the infant was once born in January 2018 and was once abandoned at a Keonjhar health facility. “We don’t find out about her biological folks,” Nayak mentioned.
It was once love to start with sight for the couple when they noticed the yet-unnamed kid at SRM. But it needed more than one trips to Keonjhar to persuade the adoption committee that Ghosh generally is a responsible care-giver. “We submitted a fit certificates from a gynaecologist but even after that the committee informed us this certificates was once not appropriate because it had to be issued through a ‘medical practitioner’,” Nag mentioned.
It was once an uphill struggle since then and, after a lot of mails and reminders, the couple after all escalated the subject to Dr Sadaf Nazneen, marketing consultant (japanese area), Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).
Parents to find queries intrusive, officers say no intent to hurt
On Tuesday, Dr Sadaf Nazneen, of CARA informed TOI, “It must be checked whether or not the couple is emotionally, bodily and financially appropriate to undertake a child. This was once the first case the place a father or mother with cerebral palsy was once concerned with adoption. It will stay as a reference point for different such packages in future. Some questions might have seemed uncomfortable but they have been in all probability requested to judge the suitability of the circle of relatives adopting the infant.”
Jeeja Ghosh and her husband, then again, don't purchase this argument. “I felt so humiliated with the questions they requested. The district kid coverage officer described cerebral palsy as a ‘mental disease’ and expressed apprehensions about my communique abilities. I fail to understand how any person in that position could have such ideas,” Ghosh alleged.
TOI spoke to the officer, Debangana Barik, who mentioned she “did not wish to hurt” Ghosh at all. “My language factor might have created a problem. I am very inspired along with her personality and she or he is completely fit to handle the infant. Her adoption case is a luck tale for all people here,” Barik added. But the brand new folks’ legal paintings remains to be not over. Bhujungu is, legally, in Ghosh’s and Nag’s foster care at this time. “We are going to file a court software in Keonjhar soon and, inside 60 days of that, we think to get the order that will make us her legal folks,” Ghosh mentioned.
The Saptaparni flat has gone through a sea change, with nappies, oil cloth and feeding bottles strewn all over the place the drawing room. Both folks are on go away now. Bhujungu has a twinkle in her eyes when Ghosh rocks the pram. She tilts her head and then lazily rests her little ft at the pram maintain. Friends and kinfolk are losing through often with cartloads of presents for the infant. Nag, too, is an entire hands-on father, from feeding Bhujungu to cleaning her when she soils herself. Ghosh’s octogenarian mother, a dementia patient, is overjoyed. Seated in a wheelchair just about the pram, she intermittently utters the infant’s name aloud. On uncommon events, when reminiscence serves her proper, seeing Ghosh and her daughter is a reminder for the previous girl of her own motherhood stories of combating against odds to bring up a daughter.
Jeeja country’s 1st adoptive mom with cerebral palsy
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