Our Stories

Jason, Amy and Elliott Vaughan Elliot’s birth date: January 15, 2010 Jackson, Tennessee, USA My Red-Headed NAIT Miracle Baby On Sunday, May 17, 2009, two positive pregnancy tests confirmed that my husband and I were expecting our first child. At our 20 week ultrasound, we found out that we were having a boy, which thrilled ...

Kiera S Minnesota, USA OUR STORY: When Reichen was 4 months old, we got the difficult news that he had had an in-utero stroke sometime late second trimester or early third. This stroke resulted in right-sided hemiparesis (weakness of the right side) which is a form of cerebral palsy. Our world became a blur of ...

Andrea Palmer Cornwall England, UK Senen It was the 18th of September 2008, I was very excited, the time had finally arrived! We new it was a girl and after 39 weeks and 6 days of the most perfect pregnancy I couldn’t wait to meet her. Labour was slow and exhausting and after failed ventouse ...

Jen Galbraith St John, New Brunswick, Cananda Almost 13 years ago I had two miscarriages one at 6.5 weeks and another following that one about 3 months later at 8.5 weeks. I was told I would have to lose a third baby before they would do any testing to see why I had the miscarriages. ...

Angie Dugan Louisville, Kentucky, USA My NAIT story began in 2002 with the birth of my son Zachary. We knew we were having a decent size baby so my OB had prepared us for the possibility of a c-section. After the Dr broke my water he noticed that there was a ton of meconium in ...

Louise Gill,  Mum to – Rory (Age 6 – 22k platelets – 2 ICH’s/ 2 transfusions/ 2 IVIG infusions) Matthew (Age 4 – treated pregnancy – IVIG 1g/KG from 20wks – Fetal Blood Sampling at 28wks –  Born with 155k Platelets at 36wks via Caesarean Section) Daniel James (Age 22 months – treated pregnancy IVIG ...

Crystal Rea Lubbock, Texas, USA Mommy to: Ethan Patrick, 9-4-07, 8,000 plt count, untreated and Ellisyn Drew, 9-9-09, 243,000 plt count, treated In September 2007, my husband and I had a precious baby boy. During delivery my doctor had me push before I had dilated to 10 centimeters and before Ethan had dropped into the ...

Catherine Woolnough Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom Our Story We didn’t find out about NAIT until after the birth of our second son, in fact I was pregnant with our third son when NAIT was first mentioned. Our first son, William was born in 1999 and was generally what you would class as a normal pregnancy ...

Tracy Ricketts-Wilson Santa Clara County, California, USA The Presence of Faith If ever I doubted the existence of God those doubts faded with the birth of my son, and were all but obliterated in the days that followed. I am not saying this as a parent in awe of the beautiful life they have helped ...