This is quite a topic, very emotional and heart wrenching. It is tough on the child, parents, carers and health providers.  As distressing as the condition is, children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) can be very lovely, cheerful and exude so much joy.

 The technical definition of cerebral palsy is an irreversible, non progressive disorder of posture or movement usually caused by an insult to the developing brain sustained in the uterus or around the time of birth. What this basically means is that muscle function is disrupted. The insult could be bad jaundice, infection (anything…bacteria, viral,) or it could be caused by a bleed in the head of a baby (especially low birth weight or premature ones). Either of the limbs could be affected resulting in hemiplegia (one sided, up and down) diplegia (two upper or two lower limbs) or quadriplegia (all four limbs). Another less common type is athethoid CP which results from damage to a part of the lower brain and manifests as wriggly movements of muscle groups.