Our Stories

Shelby Hardy USA Our NAIT Story    Our NAIT journey began September 2021. We had a normal pregnancy, excited to meet our little boy. My water broke at 38 weeks, 16 hours of labor, and a little pushing and there was our baby boy. He was perfect! He was nursing about 4 hours later when ...

Katie and Dario Rapallini Scotland   OUR NAIT JOURNEY At 38 weeks pregnant, after my fourth episode of reduced movements, it was decided that I would be induced the same day. I went home to collect my bags and was told to be back at the hospital for 4pm. After two long days of being ...

Lindsey and Garrett Colli 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 term. The day ...

Frizzell/Gullatt Family 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 an emergency caesarean ...

Michelle and JasonThornton 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 I ...

Megan Plunkett 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 groin.  We ...

Alison Kentros 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 “sunny side ...

Jools and Andy Allan Scotland, 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 asked if ...

Ashleigh Danielson & Kyle Webb 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 a little help, ...