I find myself in a world unknown to me I looked around but there wasn’t much to see The thoughts of how I even got here Used to fill my mind with so much fear My little boy, not knowing what’s going on Yet he fights, and he is oh so strong Though not everyone will ever understand That sometimes […]
“She taught me that fear is not an option.” -Diane von Furstenberg Sam and her husband, Drew, have two children, Bren and Sage. Bren, their son with HIE, is five years old, while Sage, their post-HIE baby, is two. During Sam’s pregnancy with Bren, everything went smoothly, and she and Drew were inexorably excited to finally become parents. Sam went […]
In 2017, Sarah and Russell welcomed their first child, Stella, into the world. During her pregnancy with Stella, Sarah was always a little on edge, as she had previously had a miscarriage at fourteen weeks. For the most part, though, there didn’t seem to be major complications with her pregnancy. At thirty-five weeks, Sarah began to experience back discomfort, so, […]
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 […]
Dr. Beth Robinson Swartz is a pediatrician on Hope for HIE’s Medical Advisory Board. She has practiced for over thirty years in both the private practice and hospital settings, spending a large portion of her career affiliated with the Henry Ford Health System in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Now, as Beth reflects back upon her time as a pediatrician as she […]
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