I found out that I was to be blessed with our third child, a daughter, in March of 2000. John and I already had two precious daughters and were rejoiced to be expecting another child into our family. I had had fertility problems with my first, but had such high hopes for a baby. I […]

Billy was born September 21, 2011 with full Trisomy 18.  I was diagnosed half way through my pregnancy–5 month’s to be exact.  We also learned the unexpected news we were having a son. Billy lived 37 day’s and fought hard each and every day he was the sweetest baby very quite did not like to […]

Until Austin I had never heard of Trisomy 18. We were told not to expect him to live to term, he did. We were told not to expect him to leave through the labor, he did. We were told not to expect him to live through delivery, he did. We were told he wouldn’t live […]

After trying for pregnancy for a year and a half, when we heard we were being blessed with Oliver we couldn’t be more ecstatic. We were the most excited and blessed parents in the whole world- preparing to meet him everyday. We found out our son was diagnosed with Trisomy 18 at just short of […]

The words “I’m pregnant” were the scariest words to ever come out of my mouth. This was my first pregnancy and I was terrified to tell my boyfriend. I would pick up the phone and begin dialing his number only to hang up. I finally found the courage to let him know. To my dismay […]

My husband, Jeff, and I were expecting a normal pregnancy like we had with our son. We did the Integrated Prenatal Screening as suggested by our Family Doctor. The results scared us. We were told there was a 1 in 6 chance that our baby had Down Syndrome. We decided we were going to go […]

On January 20, 2005 our daughter, Jade Valencia Day, was born at 36 weeks by emergency c-section after her heart rate started taking major decelerations. She weighed only 3 lbs., 4 oz. and spent 39 days in the hospital (first NICU, then Special Care Nursery). The day before our daughter was born, I was admitted […]

Baby’s name:  Isaac Quinn Parents’ names: Don and Victoria Birth Date: February 19, 2001 Angel Date: March 2, 2001 Hometown: Northern Virginia Isaac’s Story Every life . . . no matter how fragile or brief, forever changes the world. They returned home to Bahrain without their son, having left to go to Germany just 3 […]

Pregnancy & Diagnosis This is our story of the birth and death of our little girl, Tricia Jane Lawrence. She was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a chromosome disorder that can randomly happen in any pregnancy. She is named after her Grandmother and Great Grandmother who passed before her. Tricia comes from her grandmother Nancy Patricia […]

Our beautiful only daughter, Samantha was born on June 4th 1993 with Tetrasomy 18p Syndrome and she became an angel on December 3, 2006. It Matters to this One.. As I walked along the seashore, this young boy greeted me. He was tossing stranded starfish back to the deep blue sea. I said, “Tell me […]