Meet our October
Friends of the Month!
We love celebrating these amazing kids all month long through our social media pages and special gifts through the mail. Read their amazing stories below!
Logan Avery-
October is a huge month for Logan as he will be turning 1 on October 16th.
Unfortunately, Logan suffered from a birth injury when he was born his oxygen dropped for 9 minutes and went unnoticed by hospital staff and then they made me wait 7 hours before offering a c section.
Logan had his first seizure the day he was born and was shortly diagnosed with severe HIE. Logan has suffered from thousands of seizures his body is low tone and he’s on 13 medications and his airway is severely obstructed.
Despite our daily struggles Logan is the sweetest baby ever. While there’s a long list of things he’s not doing yet he never fails on making me smile and making me the luckiest mom in the world.
Grace Autrey-
What I want the world to know about Grace:
Grace was born at just 28 weeks weighing 2 lbs 5 ozs. The prenatal diagnosis was a giant omphalocele but in the months after birth we learned Grace had many more fun facts that made her unique BPD, CHD among many other diagnoses. We were told many limitations and prognosis. We would not let anything define our Grace except this… she was loved immensely, fearfully and wonderfully made, and made for abundant life! She was a warrior right from the start.Every step of the way we saw miracles after miracles. Every day, Grace grew stronger and her personality blossomed. At 3 months old, she received her trach and that seemed to open the door of possibilities for her. She began to smile, laugh, and play. She was adored by family, friends, and NICU staff and prayed for by thousands across the country. Grace lived for 304 full and wonderful days on earth before she went to Heaven and received her full healing.
Like Grace, all our children are “fearfully and wonderfully made”, no matter the diagnosis they are worthy of dignity and every chance at life.
Neyland-
Neyland came out weighing 4lbs 9oz. He had a giant see through omphalocele that contained his liver, stomach and intestines. My surgeon asked me if I had been in pain during pregnancy and I told them of course and Neyland never moved from my right side. I was then informed that they were surprised we were both alive because Neyland was indeed an ectopic pregnancy!! We were lucky my water broke when it did and Neyland decided he was ready to come. Neyland has always done things in his own time ha. His head was in my fallopian tube while his body grew downward into uterus. It’s crazy! During c section they had to removed my tube and a good chunk of my uterus. My miracle baby spent 83 days in the NICU. We did something called the paint and wait method for skin growth.
At 14 months old he was big enough to have his closure surgery!
He surprises me everyday and everything he has overcome. He is now a healthy 2 year old who love to eat spaghetti, french fries, chick fil a chicken nuggets and lots more, being outside and especially being on any types of “vroom vrooms.”
Please nominate your Born Abel child as a Friend of the Month! We would love to feature them on our social media pages, illustrate them, make a reel with their story, and send them a special gift in the mail!
FIll in this form to nominate your child today!