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When your muscles are so weak you cannot chew or swallow

As soon as little *Edna was born, the doctors discovered that she had difficulties breathing and needed oxygen supplementation.

“She was also very floppy and could not even move a finger,” her mother Wangui says as she recalls the worry that greeted the arrival of her newborn.

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