Barbecue will help toddler

Barbecue will help toddler

Newmarket

Drop by for a barbecue Saturday  and help a young girl with Pierre Robin Sequence.

Viktoria was born Feb. 22 with Pierre Robin Sequence.

She will be home soon and needs your help.

As a special needs baby, she will require special medical equipment and nurses.

The event and 50/50 draw will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 65 Emerson Way in Newmarket.

Pierre Robin Sequence is the name given to a birth defect that involves an abnormally small lower jaw and a tendency for the tongue to “ball up” and fall backward toward the throat.

Babies born with this condition may or may not have a cleft palate, but they do not have a cleft lip.

The condition was first described in 1822 and was named after the French physician who associated the above symptoms with breathing problems in affected infants.

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