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 […]

Our Perfect Baby Girl In December 2012, my husband, Peter, and I discovered that we were expecting our second child. We were so excited to add to our family and especially thrilled to give a sibling to our 16 month old daughter, Claire. My due date was August 16, 2013, which is just 3 days […]