by Francie Todd | Mar 4, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Flashback to 2004 and I was introduced to a rare metabolic disorder, Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP) characterized by an enzyme deficiency in the blood. College kids and newly dating, David told me that he had a rare sun condition that was best described as an...
by Francie Todd | Feb 25, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Logan was born in August 2014, at just 24 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound 5 ounces at birth. He was an identical twin, and unfortunately, during pregnancy, mom developed a condition called Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. When this occurs with twins, one twin...
by Francie Todd | Feb 18, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
April 13, 2021 my phone rang and it was THE call- we had been matched to a birth mom in Arkansas who was 25 weeks pregnant with a baby girl with Down syndrome. We had been working with the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network for about 6 months. We quickly...
by Francie Todd | Feb 11, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Our Jack was born 10 days early in November 2015. He came into the world pretty quickly for a first-born child. Nevertheless, he was healthy as far as we could tell. On the first full day in the hospital, his hearing screen was...
by Francie Todd | Feb 4, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Grant Hollis, V (G5 as he is lovingly called) was born June 23, 2018 at 26 weeks. Before birth, his pregnancy had been typical but my body was just ready to go in to labor too early! He was 2lb 1 oz and did well for the first 2 weeks of life. That’s when that NICU...
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