About "Ranenko"

"It is an honor for us to help parents dress babies from the very first days of life, regardless of height, weight and timing of gestation."

- O. Balyasna

The idea to create Ranenko arose in 2013 six months after the birth of my daughter at 7 months of pregnancy. While nursing a baby in the Perinatal center of Kiev, I had to spend a lot of effort searching for tiny clothes that fit hats, socks that would not fall down. For me, the question of dressing a child in size, comfortably and beautifully was important as for a mother. It seemed to me then that if I could not take care even of such elementary things as clothes, how could I take care of the baby in general. And nothing really fit on my little inch, and it upset.

I was incredibly supported by my family, friends, and in particular, my close friend Anya, who in her time was also born prematurely with a weight of less than a kilogram. Anya by her example, real and visual was for me the strongest motivation Believe and in my little bundle of happiness weighing only 1 kilogram. That is exactly how Diana weighed when moving to the second stage of nursing. Later I learned that many celebrities were born prematurely, and in fact, if you ask friends, It turns out that preterm labor is common. In the world, every 10th child is born prematurely. At the same time, the majority of the "rush", as they are affectionately called, catch up with their peers and are in no way inferior to them after 1 -2 years.

With the development of Rarenko, social projects and initiatives that in 2016 took shape into a national movement called the Ukrainian Association of Parents of Prematurely-born Children "Early Birds" grew. Association for the first two years More than 3 thousand parents in Ukraine joined the work, representatives appeared in 8 cities of Ukraine, and over 5 years of work, Ranenko could dress and take care of more than 15,000 tiny clients weighing from 470 grams. It was so much our most weighed small client.

We are happy to help parents solve issues with the comfort of their children in Ranenko, and more systematically and globally approach the solution of problems together with the Parents Association, promote development-oriented care issues, family-oriented approach, to lobby the interests of prematurely born children at the All-Ukrainian level.