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...
by Francie Todd | Jan 28, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Saturday April 13th, 2018 was a normal day. Levi was 18 months old at the time. We played outside as a family and I remember it was the first time Levi tried to play hopscotch on our driveway. That morning my husband, Pride, and I thought he looked a little bit...
by Francie Todd | Jan 21, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Katherine Jane Schomisch (“Katie”) was born September 9, 2017. After experiencing some global developmental delays, our answer was found with an exome sequencing of Katie’s genes. Katie is the 220th person world-wide to be diagnosed with Schaaf-Yang Syndrome...
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