Gracie was born with very severe heart defects that over the first two years of her life prevented her lungs from growing and left them very small. After receiving a surgery many said she would never live to get, she now plays T-ball and does gymnastics, activities no one thought possible.

Leah says she has always been anxious and her mental illness impacts her entire family. It also carries a stigma. “It’s something that real that people don’t understand. It’s like a monster—something in the back of your head,” Leah says.

When Blake's mom discovered her son had spina bifida, she knew she was in good hands. Now three years old, Blake is thriving and his parents are hopeful he will be able to walk soon with assistance.

When Banks was born four months premature, his parents sought the highest level of care possible to save his life. After being treated in our Newborn Intensive and Special Care Units, Banks grew strong — strong enough that, recently, he was finally able to go home.

Ivy isn’t quite ten-years-old but she’s already been diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Because Ivy is from a mixed race, the search for a bone marrow donor was difficult. At more than one year since her transplant, she’s had minimal complications.

At a little over age 2, Sawyer was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Sawyer is now 7 and his parents focus on the progress they have seen in Sawyer in recent years. In part because of the teachers, therapists and aides he works with, in part because they have learned how to best support Sawyer.