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 […]
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 […]
At the time of Lisa’s pregnancy with Amelia, she was thirty-five years old, and she and her husband had been married for eleven years. They lived in the Washington, DC, area, where Lisa worked as a lawyer. After all those years of marriage, Lisa and her husband were overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of becoming parents. Because Lisa had […]
Marie and her husband have three children, Fatimah, Ayah, and Yusuf. Marie’s husband works as an internal medicine physician, and Marie is training to become a nurse practitioner. In August of 2019, with Yusuf’s traumatic birth and subsequent HIE diagnosis, Marie’s world was flipped upside down. During Marie’s pregnancy, she never even knew HIE could be a possibility. Since she […]
When Megan first found out she was going to be a mother, she had a whole future built inside of her head. She envisioned herself holding Cole for the first time, her husband, Jeremy, by her side. She envisioned herself driving the minivan to Cole’s soccer games on Sunday mornings or running around with him in the backyard. She envisioned […]
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