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14 | THE REVIEW SEP–DEC 2022 Fatigue takes its toll as Pippa learns to manage living with CP The Winstone family is sharing Pippa’s story to help raise awareness of growing up with, and raising a child with, Cerebral Palsy. By MELANIE LOUDEN Pippa Winstone’s early years were like a puzzle. A puzzle where her parents Charles and Tracey had to constantly push for answers for their “medically complex child”. The six-year-old Aucklander has Cerebral Palsy and was the face of the Be Green & Be Seen 2022 awareness and fundraising campaign. Pippa and her twin sister Eleanor were born at 34 weeks and two days. While premature, Pippa was “absolutely healthy” at birth and the twins spent just two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit. Tracey says at first, they didn’t notice any issues with Pippa except that she had trouble swallowing and seemed to suffer from reflux. It was Eleanor they were worried about. Eleanor had a severe milk allergy which led to six months of being in and out of hospital. Following one hospital stay Above: After plenty of hospital visits, Pippa’s CP diagnosis finally came when she was four years old.

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