Logan’s Story

Logan’s Story

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...
Peyton’s Story

Peyton’s Story

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...
Jack’s Story

Jack’s Story

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...
Grant’s Story

Grant’s Story

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...
Levi’s Story

Levi’s Story

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...
Katie’s Story

Katie’s Story

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...