“Never worry about the past, it brings tears. Don’t think too much about the future, it brings fears. Live in the present moment with a smile, it brings cheers!” -Ravi V. Melwani Tara and Matt have four children, Lyla, Wyatt, Joy, and Myles. Lyla, their eldest, is their HIE daughter. Before Lyla was born in 2011, and even for the […]
Katherine lives with her husband, Caleb, and their two children, Caroline and Cohen, in coastal Virginia. Caroline is five years old, while Cohen, Katherine’s son with HIE, is three. Up until Cohen was born, there was no indication that he would be anything but perfectly healthy. Yet, with his birth in September 2018, the unanticipated came to life. A week […]
Katie lives in Virginia with her husband, Robbie, and her four children. Her three daughters are ten, three, and one and a half, and her son is six. Jolene, her youngest, is her HIE baby. During her pregnancy with Jolene, Katie was confident that she would be born healthy and full of life like her older three children. Everyone was […]
Jennifer had come to love the life she had built—she was doing research in chemical engineering, a field she was deeply passionate about, studying to land her dream job of becoming a lecturer, and finally en route to giving her daughter Izzy a sibling. But, in November 2019, with the birth of Charlotte, Jennifer’s life as she knew it changed […]
Ashley Fielding is affiliated with Hope for HIE, both as a provider on the medical advisory board and as an HIE mom herself. She has been a pediatric physical therapist (PT) for ten years. She was drawn to this field for the variety of settings she was able to work in—from the early intervention setting to the school setting—and for […]
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