Author: Mariah Wheeler

The one thing we know for sure in life is that things don’t always turn out the way we think they will. Sometimes we get surprises. Courtney and her husband, Eric were in for a surprise when the doctor told them that what she had in her belly has never been seen before in the history of the hospital. The couple went for medical checkups but were told it was difficult to determine why she was losing the babies. However, to help them plan their family, they were given fertility treatments that worked and Courtney became pregnant, this time with twins…

Born at 25 weeks, the little baby Ward required the use of numerous machines to support him as he fought to survive. He was transferred four days after he was born to Nationwide Children’s Hospital to undergo a procedure and remained in the hospital’s NICU fighting for his life for the next 107 days. ‘There were two very scary moments that stand out among the rest. The first was when they did his first brain scan looking for bleeding. There are 4 grades, 1-4 with 4 being the worst. The results came back and he had a grade 2 on one side,…