EP 245: Infantile Spasms Awareness Week and Epilepsy Awareness with Kelly Cervantes

The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Elizabeth Presta

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.2 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Each year on December 1-7, a coalition of organizations (including CURE Epilepsy) recognize Infantile Spasms Awareness Week, a critical opportunity to raise awareness and educate the public about infantile spasms. Kelly Cervantes is on this episode sharing a mother's journey through epilepsy. Kelly has a deeply touching personal story to share after loosing her daughter, Adelaide to infantile spasms.

Since this life altering moment, Kelly has dedicated her time to helping other parents navigate having a child with Epilepsy as well as bringing more research, awareness and support. Together with Cure Epilespy, they can not emphasize enough the importance to bring awareness to the incurable disease that impacts 1 out of 26 people at some point during their lifetime.

https://www.cureepilepsy.org/

https://www.instagram.com/kellygc411/?hl=en

https://www.kellycervantes.com/blog

Connect with Elizabeth:

https://www.instagram.com/esandoz/?hl=en

https://miraculousmamas.com/blog

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to Miraculous Mamas Podcast.
0:11.4	I'm your host, Elizabeth Joy, and we believe in empowering women through storytelling
0:15.1	and education.
0:16.1	I've been absolutely loving the interviews that I've done this year, getting to know
0:23.3	the people that I'm interviewing and form friendships and to learn and to grow.
0:28.5	And I just want to take a minute to thank you guys for taking an hour out of your week,
0:33.9	every single week to show up and to listen and to support and continue to trust in me to
0:39.3	bring on guests and share information.
0:42.3	And I just want you to know that your support is everything.
0:46.3	It's the reason why I'm still doing this and that I continue to want to find more people
0:54.9	to bring on to share information with us and to dedicate time out of my week every week
1:02.0	to do this is for you guys.
1:04.4	Obviously, I gained something out of it.
1:06.2	I learn so much from these guests and I get to share with you and it's been so much
1:12.7	fun and I've been really loving it.
1:16.5	Today's episode is going to be so informative and also a little bit intense before we dive
1:24.5	in.
1:25.5	I want you to know that there is going to be a story of child loss.
1:29.2	So if you feel like you're going to be triggered by that or you're not in a headspace emotionally
1:34.4	or mentally to receive this story, just be aware of that as we go into it.
1:40.3	Really, really happy for Kelly Saronktis coming on and sharing about epilepsy with us.
1:45.5	November was epilepsy awareness month and there was so much I didn't know and she just
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