Our Stories

Roseanne Schaller USA Hello, my name is Rosanne Schaller, the proud mommy of Michael Schaller. I had a very normal pregnancy and nothing to ever indicate a problem. In fact, I continued normal everyday activities (work, exercise, ect) right up until I started to have contractions and went into labor. I was a couple weeks ...

Marin MacCallum-Drake Canada We now have 2 healthy boys. Aiden is 6 and Lincoln is 7months old. I come from a small family with no siblings and have always wanted a big family of my own. Every time i saw that pink line on a pregnancy test or heard the nurse say congratulations on the ...

Steph’s story: How the Yahoo Health group started in 2002. Stephanie, Jim, Chris and Jason Volpe Holbrook, New York, USA Back in September 2000 Christopher was born, he was our first child 8lbs 0 oz 21 inches long. He had a full head of hair and was so absolutely gorgeous. We knew things were not ...

Erin and Sean Hickey USA Finn’s Story I did everything right. I took folic acid a year before conception. I cut out alcohol and caffeine a month before conception. I ate fresh fruit and vegetables, no deli meat, no high mercury fish. I walked every day.  I read any book I could get my hands ...

Jason, Amy and Elliott Vaughan 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 my husband because he had his “legacy” and ...

Kiera S 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 medical ...

Andrea Palmer England, UK Senen’s Story 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 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. A few months later ...

Angie Dugan 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 my fluid ...