A perfect baby

Ellie was absolutely a perfect baby. She never cried. She was just content with whatever. She was absolutely beautiful. To look at her at this age you can't tell that there is anything wrong with her at all.

I was able to nurse her, which I felt was quite an accomplishment on both of our parts.

Although she never cried, she also never smiled.

I was very happy at this point. I was content and optimistic about the future.

When she was about 3 months old her pediatrician referred us to Early Intervention. We got Speech, Occupational Threapy and Physical Therapy, also a Vision Therapist from the School for the Deaf and Blind. With each of them visiting our home once a week, we were very busy. I loved all of her therapists.

She never needed the oxygen we were sent home with. We did use the apnea monitor at night, in case she stopped breathing it would wake us up.

"A" loved his little sister from the very beginning.