After having a miscarriage with twin boys a year before, Tina desperately needed things to go well during her pregnancy with Olivia. There were a few minor issues along the way—around twenty-eight weeks in, Tina was told Olivia measured small, and Tina developed gestational diabetes toward the end of the pregnancy. Because Olivia wasn’t growing at the rate she was […]
For most of her life, Jessica never envisioned having children, certain that motherhood was not her path. However, around eight years ago, she and her husband began to rethink their future, eventually coming to the consensus that they wanted to be parents. With the birth of her daughter Sierra on July 20, 2014, and their HIE event, Jessica is grateful […]
Tracy has two older boys from a previous marriage, Spencer and Hunter, who are eighteen and fifteen years old respectively. In her current relationship with her partner, Derrick, she has a seven-year-old daughter, Mona, and her HIE baby, Chandler, born in 2017. Tracy was used to the exciting chaos that comes with having a large family with children of such […]
When Kavitha first immigrated from India to Arizona in 2014 for her husband’s work, she thought this would mark the biggest transition in her life. Not only was she leaving behind a family, culture, and life she had always known, but she had just given birth to her first child, Uday. On top of navigating life in a new country […]
Katherine and Patrick were just twenty-one years old when they had their first child, August. Neither of them had had the easiest childhood. Yet, instead of this adversity serving as a barrier, Katherine and Patrick are stronger people and parents for it. Because they were forced to find resources for themselves as kids, they were good at finding the best […]
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