A Perfect webpage of info.

California

Bless your sweethearts! I\'m glad Nathan is there with you.
Love.

South Africa, Cape Town

Beautiful

IDAHO USA

What a beautiful way to cherish and love both your angels. I wish you the best.

Texas

Great site. Wonderful way to honor both boys and remember Noah. Love and kisses.

UK

Thinking of your little Noah, today on his 5th birthday and in the coming days... 5th can be a toughie, thinking of you all Sammie xxxxx

Mapleton, ME

Randy and Sammie,
I am so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the pain you went through, I don't think i would be able to go on without my son, Braden. God Bless. Your website is a wonderful tribute to your baby boy.

wilkes barre, pa

Hi, in case you haven't noticed my last name, I'm Rich's youngest daughter. And I think this web-site is brilliant. I really like it, a lot.

Idaho

I just had 23w 5d baby on jan 21st 2009, after getting HELLP. I had full blown seizures etc. and flown to a hospital three hours from my home.I had never even heard of it. We lost two other daughters, Alexis at 21w due to a bee sting (I am allergic) in May 2004. And Scarlett in Nov 2006 full term due to complications from a virus called CMV that I also had never heard of she lived for a month. The CMV caused major brain damage and we made some choices to let Scarlett go and not suffer any longer, the choices we had to make were so awful I won't even describe them. The doctors said "oh it is just a fluke thing it can only happen once and ten you are immune to CMV and you may not even know you have it. (most people get it in early childhood) As I am perfectly healthy we had no reason to suspect anything would go wrong. I never had swelling, protein or a high blood pressure in my life or pregnancy. We have two boys Donevan 13 full term whom I developed an amniotic embolism where the amniotic fluid got in my blood also really rare it was caused from a cord strangulation during delivery and the Doc scrambling to delivery him! I had never heard of it either. I beat all odds to live through that one also. Donevan developed a grade 2 bleed in his frontal lobe at birth due to trauma and hypoxia, but he is fine and beat all the odds. Hunter is almost four on Valentines Day and was an easy pregnancy with no complications, he's nutty but healthy no complications before or after the pregnancy. Our new baby, Sienna Joy is doing very well, thr 1st U/S of her head showed no bleed. Her PDA seems to be closed at least for now after 2 echocardiograms. She was able to stay off the vent last week for eighteen hours which shocked the doc's. But her O2 has been up and down since, she averages around 40% which I being told is relatively low I feel the doc's pushed her to hard last week and she's been set back a bit. This morning her chest x-ray was not very good cloudy they said. I don't know if it's from vent damage or something else... The docs keep just telling us all the risks I get it! But I have buried two daughters already all I have is HOPE here. They told us she only had a 3-5% chance of surviving the delivery I was to far gone for them to do a c-sec HCT was down in the 4000 range. Sienna was born in the amniotic sac giving her some protection... she weighed one pound even. She got down to 14oz and now she weighs 1 lb 1oz. I know I have a lot to be thankful for and I am; but the fact is she is doing okay today and I don't know what tomorrow will bring. I feel a sense of loss at missing the rest of my pregnancy she was not due until the 15th of May. I had just barely started to feel her move a couple weeks before. I feel guilty for feeling that way and I feel guilty for being mad about it. I just can't freaking believe that something like this has happened Again!!!! I just wanted another baby so badly I just wonder now if I was asking for too much. Well thank God I still have her at least for today I guess. I know I don't have a choice but I just don't know if I can do this, I just keep hoping it's all a bad dream and I'll wake up and she'll still be safe inside of me and not three hours away in a ICU. On top of all of it I had to come back to work (I am a Social Worker for Child Protection) because if I didn't then I would not be able to have any time with her when she comes home. I could go on disability but then I loose insurance on her and we need the double coverage obviously. I feel so guilty about that also, because I can't even be there with her. Anyone who will... please pray for Sienna I just can't loose her. God Bless hoping all who read this find their babies health and strong. Bless Nate and Noah's mom for she has known both great miracles and great loss..Holly

Maine

Love the pages, pictures and poems. Nate looks so great. Love and miss you all.

singapore

hey there, i've just virtually stepped into your blog after discovering you at 5 minutes For Mom. i have a preemie daughter too, she was born at 26 weeks. i'm sad to learn about baby Noah and hope that baby Nate will be in the pinkest of his health.

Thank you for sharing your story

SC

Thank you for sharing your story. We too lost our 4 day old daughter Sydney and our other daughter Addison is going through the same thing, she is going through so much. She is the strongest little girl I know. She too had the fluid and they caught it way early so we were greatful for that. Just the stuff she had to go through just so they could drain it out was too much. She is feeling better for the moment and has been put on a less invasive ventilator. My sister below wrote you and sent this page to me. I really am truly sorry for your loss and you are so blessed to have your son healthy and at home. This process just started for us 14 days ago so we still have at least 3 more months in the NICU, but the nurses are great so it makes it easier. Thank you for telling your story it touched me and I can say I know how you once felt. Thank you.

UP of Michigan

My sister had twins on July 10th at 25 weeks, 15 weeks early. Sydney Ann died July 14, 2008 and Addison Paige has been doing "good" and is a fighter. She lives in SC so I just got back from visiting her and my girlfriend found this site for us. What a wonderful site and encouraging, yet very sad for Noah. They are at the Children's Hospital in Charleston SC. I've been lucky to have three healthy girls and I am so upset for my sister and her new husband Paul. I can't even imagine what they are going through but I want to do everything I can for them. I'm going to pass this site on to my sister. It's encouragement that we need now. Thank you for posting this.

UK

Hi Sammie, thinking of your boys, especially Noah at this time. The poem you have for Noah is one of my favourites that I have laminated for Cianán's grave. Loads of thoughts in the coming days, I hope Nate is keeping you strong! Em xxxxx (emwal, BLSG)