Nairobi, Sept. 13 -- When you are exhausted, sleep should come easily. But for Selina Kathambi, it did not. After giving birth to her daughter, she expected the usual challenges of new motherhood; sleepless nights, colic, sore nipples and eczema. What she did not expect was to spend night after night awake because her daughter could not tell the difference between day and night.

"I had expected the usual demands of caring for a newborn, but I was not prepared for caring for a child with special needs," she says.

Selina had endured 32 hours of labour, and her daughter appeared healthy at birth, crying immediately like most newborns. But eight months later, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and their routine changed dramatically.

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