by Heather Laskin | Oct 14, 2016 | Awesome
A team of surgeons successfully separated a pair of twin boys conjoined at the head in a marathon procedure that lasted more than 16 hours. According to their mother’s Facebook post, 13-month-old twins Jadon and Anias McDonald are not out of the woods yet, but each...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 20, 2016 | Inspiration
Paul and Ruth Rankin were overjoyed when they found out they were expecting. But that joy quickly turned to fear and grief when doctors gave them the heartbreaking news – their daughter, Lydia, had hydrocephalus and Alobar holoprosencephaly (water on the brain...
by Heather Laskin | Jun 25, 2016 | Inspiration
Content via ABC News When Bentley Yoder was born, his parents arrived at the hospital with nothing but an outfit to bury him in. After all, Sierra and Dustin Yoder said, they had been told for months their son would not live long after birth. In fact, they said...
by Heather Laskin | Jun 14, 2016 | Inspiration
Content via Independent Journal They had plans to have two, maybe (emphasize the “maybe”) three kids. Seven children later, Josh and Allison Lewis have no regrets about the change in plans that life handed them. With four biological and three adopted children, the...
by Heather Laskin | Jun 8, 2016 | Inspiration
When Courtney Baker found out she was pregnant it was a joyous moment, but that joy quickly turned to fear, doubt, and anger when her doctor informed her that her baby had Down syndrome and urged her to terminate the pregnancy. Throughout her pregnancy, when she went...