Davide – Born November 2013 in Zurich, Switzerland – STXBP1 syndrome
Davide is a child of two and half, from Switzerland. Originally his family was from Italy. He was born after 42 weeks of pregnancy in a caesarean delivery. Right from the start, he suffered epilepsy attacks. A few months later he was diagnosed with a mutation of gene STXBP1 which is important for brain functions. […]
Matteo – Born May 2012 in Tuscany, Italy – STXBP1 genetic syndrome
Matteo Ferrandi was born in May 2012 in Italy, to a loving family, with two older sisters.Some days later, tests revealed that he had STXBP1 syndrome. In his first year, his parents said, “Matteo started having epileptic seizures – a phenomenon related to the genetic disorder. Doctors recommended medications, but although the seizures became fewer, […]
Margherita – Born November 2013 in Brescia, Italy – mutation of the KCNQ2 gene
Margherita from Italy was born with a genetic mutation of the KCNQ2 gene, and epilepsy.When we met Margherita at the age of two years, she didn’t like to stay on her belly, she was unable to sit by herself, didn’t crawl, and didn’t have much of motivation to move.After six months of therapy at First-Step, […]
Giorgia – Born September 2015, in Rimini, Italy – Wolf-Hirschhorn
Giorgia was born on September 2015 in Rimini – Italy Her developmental growth was slow than normal and at the age of 5 moths she was diagnosed with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. Until the age of 9 months she hardly moved, she spent a long time on the trampoline, or on her parents hands. Twice a week […]
