• 28/04/2022
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I control everything by touch. I'm not afraid anymore, says blind mother Alena<

Alena was born with her twin brother prematurely in the 7th month of pregnancy. Both children had to go to an incubator in the 1980s: "Unfortunately, my retina was burned there for the most part. I saw a little under the age of 16 - about 2 meters in one eye and half a meter in the other. But then there was a complication, a cataract. And then there was nothing to do with it, "explains Alena.

In the time-lapse series, we mapped her motherhood and preparation for it: "Now I need to hit the mound," Alena told Radiožurnál in the summer of 2019. She was still training with an empty pram and a few kilograms of the baby model. The blind future mother learned to turn and approach the curbs and had to manage the ramp on the stairs that lead to the apartment building.

The nicest sound I've ever heard

As a blind man, Alena carries a pram behind her so that she can explore the terrain in front with a blind stick. Alena was also preparing for the birth of her child at home: “We are entering my apartment, there is beautiful acoustics and most importantly I know it here. I use echolocation. There is a cot, clothes, cosmetics. "

In the autumn of 2019, Alena is 8 months pregnant. At the maternity examination, she hears her daughter's heart for the first time: Of course, I also meet with negative opinions - how will you do it when you can't see… Do you realize that? I'm not saying it's going to be a walk in the rose garden, but it's not for any of us. "

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Charlotte eventually was born by caesarean section a little earlier. Alena is a mother in the dark: "You hold the child in your hand and you say to yourself - it's a piece of me, it's beautiful. I call her Lotynka. I have it in my hand every day, so I know what it looks like. "

Blind Alena manages all the care of her daughter herself. He wraps up his palms: "Let's see what we have there. We reach there and we have a great treasure there. I'm not afraid now. "

Charlotte got used to it

Charlotte is growing. It's 2020 and Alena starts with snacks: "We prepare the snack by mixing it."

A blind mother checks everything by touch and uses her hearing. Lotka is starting to crawl and climb, for Alena this is a new stage.

"I control everything by touch, Charlotte is used to it."

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In October 2020, Charlotte celebrates her first birthday and begins a little later: “Follow me, Loty. What are you bringing me? You're a bitch. "

How blind Alena and today's two-year-old Charlotte visit the playground, how do they live and how do their assistants help them? You will hear about their year 2021 in other parts of the time-lapse series Mama in the Dark III.