Category: Family Stories

“Above all, HOPE”

Two years ago, the Hollis family was anxiously awaiting the birth of their third child, a baby boy. On February 19, 2017, the family was thrilled to welcome their newest addition, Hank. “It was a totally normal and healthy pregnancy and delivery,” Hank’s mother, Katie said. “We went home in...

Going from frightened new mother to “mom”

Becoming a mom is supposed to be a magical time, filled with joy and promise. But for some mothers, the magic of this time is clouded by frightening diagnoses and procedures. Like Whitney Smith. Just three weeks after her daughter Hailey was born, she was told her tiny child had hydrocephalus, or...

Hope

Adam and I have three children - Caroline, Ann Parker and Harrison, who is two and a half. Harrison had always been late on gross motor skills like sitting up and crawling and walking. I would always talk to our pediatrician who would say that if he wasn’t doing it by the next month we would go...

Superheroes

One thing that all of the best superheroes have going for them is the element of surprise. Ava’s parents wanted a baby very much but weren’t expecting her when she sprang into the world three months prematurely. Because she was so premature, Ava spent almost four months in the NICU, growing...