Our Stories

Lindsey and Garrett Colli Walnut Creek, California, USA Our NAIT Story Our NAIT story is like most, but it has a bit of a plot twist. Our son was due March 2019 where we had a textbook pregnancy for 9 months. Every appointment showed a perfectly healthy mom and baby who was carried to full ...

Frizzell/Gullatt Family Fort Worth, Texas, USA   Our NAIT Journey   Oliver was born in Fort Worth, TX, USA on September 13, 2020. He was also our first NAIT baby, born via emergency caesarean at 39.2 weeks. (Our first son, Carter, was unaffected and we did not know we had any platelet issues). Ollie was ...

Michelle and JasonThornton Alaska, USA Our NAIT Journey I was 32 weeks pregnant, and until that point, everything had been going absolutely perfect. Every check up with the OB was going great! Baby was growing well, moving well, tests all came back good. One day, I was enjoying a Subway sandwich, when I felt like ...

Megan Plunkett Aiken, SC, USA  Our NAIT story I was induced on October 14, 2015 with our second daughter Kinsleigh.  She was born at 6:15pm that evening and weighed 9 lb 3 oz and was 21 inches long.   We had a wonderful uncomplicated delivery.  The following afternoon, I noticed bruising on Kinsleigh’s abdominal area and ...

Alison Kentros Frankin, Indiana USA Our NAIT Story When I was pregnant with Caleb, everything was “normal”. I was gestational diabetic but I thought that was the biggest hurdle. I went into labor 3 days before my due date. I was in labor for 12 hours, pushing for an hour. He was what they called ...

Jools and Andy Allan Livingston, West Lothian UK. Our NAIT Story After two miscarriages we fell pregnant with Ruby. It was a great pregnancy until the end when I began having strange symptoms and was diagnosed with Obstetric cholestasis. Ruby was born in Nov 2011 by C-section. We were ecstatic! The next day a midwife ...

Ashleigh Danielson & Kyle Webb New South Wales Australia Our NAIT Journey Our NAIT journey started on Sunday 25th of November at 3:53pm, in a country town in the Southern Highlands. My contractions had started 2am on the Saturday morning, so it was a hard and exhausting labour. After an hour of pushing I needed ...

DeAnna Smith Family New Jersey, USA More of My NAIT Story I’ve been a nurse for 22 years and have worked specifically with medically complex and special needs pediatric patients. I’ve seen the rarest of the rare, yet I had never heard of Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia until I had my daughter Jaylyn. My other 2 ...

Matthew, Kristin and Flynn Weiler Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Our NAIT Journey Our NAIT story began in September of 2018 when our son, Flynn, was born. We were ecstatic to find out that we were pregnant with our first child. We decided to keep the gender a surprise until delivery. The entire pregnancy was amazing! I ...