Our Stories

Jose and Alexis Enriquez, USA Our NAIT baby Mateo Maximo I will never forget that Friday afternoon when I received the call that something was wrong with my baby. I was 20 weeks pregnant at the time and during a routine ultrasound a week prior they had detected swelling on the right side of the ...

Bryan and Tania Nelson USA   It was a 20 hour bus ride home to visit my parents. I was six months pregnant, tucked away in my bag were pictures of the ultrasound of a beautiful, happy, little girl. I couldn’t wait to show my Mom and Dad. I had a previous miscarriage at three ...

  Rikki Dolan USA OUR NAIT STORY Our NAIT story began with the words “Something is wrong with your baby.” Those were the words the labor and delivery doctor said to us as they prepped me for labor. They had decided to do a last minute ultra-sound to make sure the baby was in position ...

Heather and Lon Beckius Minnesota, USA OUR NAIT STORY I was 31 weeks pregnant when I went in for a non-stress test due to having gestational diabetes. While doing the non-stress test Jayger’s heart rate kept dropping really low and then going back up to normal. The doctor also did an ultrasound to check on ...

Liz Brewer Bellbrook, Ohio, USA After almost 3 years of marriage, my husband, Andrew, and I decided to start a family.  After a few months we were pregnant, but the joy was short lived as the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at about 10 weeks, in October 2010.  Heartbroken, we picked up the pieces and tried ...

Nikki Bebbington Australia Our NAIT story began when Laura was a few days old, despite the bruising and petechiae it wasn’t until I insisted the paediatrician correct a tongue tie which oozed and bleed that a platelet count was preformed reporting a count of 8 then an hour later 7. I remember not understanding what ...

Charlotte Ravenhall England, UK I already had 3 boys Josh 10, Reece was 7 and Harley was 2, so finding out I was pregnant again with my 4th baby was a big shock. It took me a while to come to terms of having another child as it was hard work looking after my other ...

Casey and Brian Haggard USA Our NAIT Story May 12, 1998 I gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy Gabriel. Loving the fact of being a mom I wanted more even though my husband and I were young. June 20, 2001 came Carter, then September 3, 2004 Faith and December 12, 2005 Alexandra. Feeling ...

The Ghalib-Parks family USA   We are very blessed to have three healthy children despite a diagnosis of NAIT. Our oldest, Yunus (Arabic for Jonah), was born with no complications, a product of a low risk pregnancy and had only standard checks after birth so his platelet count at birth was never known.  Perhaps it ...