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Faith's story took a tough turn when doctors diagnosed her with spina bifida at 20 weeks. A portion of her spinal cord was protruding through open skin.
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 She weighed only 1 pound 7 ounces when she was born, and developed PDA, a chronic lung condition and a condition in which a blood vessel failed to close normally after birth.
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 Lily's complex condition required an integrated, multidisciplinary team of specialists to handle multiple heart surgeries, infections and repairing her cleft lip and palate.
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 After being born preterm at 25 weeks, Olivia developed retonopathy of prematurity, a common complication and leading cause of retinal detachment and blindness in premature infants.
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 One percent of the world's population is born with heart disease, and many of those children born outside of the United States go undiagnosed. YuXiu is among the lucky ones.
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 Carl tried eight different medication regimens that failed to stop the seizures and was in status epilepticus seven times that his parents were aware of, until a surgery helped him.
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 Diagnosing Evan’s CFD was a game-changer. “We went to three hospitals and over 30 specialists before Dr. Frye and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital gave us our child back.”
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 Standing on a trailer, five-year-old Tristen began waving her arms to shoo her horses away. Spooked by the motion, one of the horses caught Tristen with a hoof to the left side of the chest.
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 Hunter arrived in the world a blue baby – without a diaphragm he couldn’t breathe.
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 In 2007, a team of 15 highly trained medical staff used a rarely required but critical procedure to transform a potentially disastrous delivery into a safe birth. Today, the infant who benefited from the procedure is approaching his third birthday.
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 Hayden's breathing and eating problems were a mystery to his family. When he was 9 months old, they took him to a specialist, who discovered scar tissue causing the problem.
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 On a Spring day in a south Houston suburb, Jonathan Moore had just begun football practice when the fullback suddenly began gasping for breath. Moments later, he lay unconscious on the field.
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 At 13 years old, Triston Marez was on his way to becoming an Olympic-level gymnast; however, he had one obstacle stopping him -- holes in his heart.
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 Just weeks into her pregnancy, Lindsey experienced complications that led to 61 days of bed rest in the hospital. She thanks the Women’s Center staff and support from the March of Dimes for helping her through.
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 12-year-old Garret Mullikin was on vacation with his family when he decided to ride his friend's new dirt bike. He lost control on a hill, crashing into a tree branch. The branch pierced Garret through his neck.
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 “When we met Dr. Baumgartner, he told us, ‘I can’t imagine being a parent and listening to a doctor tell me that he wanted to remove a portion of my child’s brain,’” his mom remembers.
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 Mark remembers the details of the day clearly. On the morning of Jan. 1, his daughter Amy called from Mexico and proudly announced that she’d just learned to ride a four-wheeler. It was 5 p.m. when Mark got the call from the emergency clinic.
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 Before being treated by Mary Kay Koenig, M.D., five-year-old Katie lived a life of daily seizures, developmental deficits and repeat visits to specialists who had no answers. Just months after beginning treatment, she could talk and run for the first time in her life.
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“When Donovan gets a simple cold, if it’s not managed properly, it can turn into an ER nightmare,” says Julia, whose five-year-old son was diagnosed with asthma in 2006.
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 Meredith, an expectant mom and Clinical Nurse Manager in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), went into labor at 36 weeks. She never imagined that her new baby would become a patient at her very own hospital.
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Like her three siblings, Zoe was born with delayed gastric emptying (DGE). It later became evident she also suffered from obstructive sleep apnea. Now, she is learning to thrive.
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At 20 weeks pregnant, Mandy's 3D ultrasound revealed her child would be born with a cleft lip.
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Cindy's pregnancy was smooth until she started to dilate at 24 weeks. After nearly 3 months of bed rest, fraternal twins Wesley and Kenzie were born.
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At 28 months apart, brothers Nicholas and Nathan suffered similar symptoms. After finally being diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, they are improving.
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In her first gymnastics meet of the season, Brittany went into a handstand on the high bar, then overshot the low bar and landed on the mat.
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During his 68-day stay in the NICU, Jaxson learned life skills other newborns take for granted.
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After being deemed inoperable by Venezuelan cardiovascular surgeons, Cleimar is doing well following her lifesaving surgery.
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Born at 23 weeks, Kyle came into this world weighing only 1 pound, 3 ounces.
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Bryce came into the world at 29 weeks weighing 3 pounds, 11 ounces. He spent the next five months fighting for his life.
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Just 37 days after birth, in severe respiratory distress, Marissa was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
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Severe pain in the lower back of the head led to a diagnosis of Chiari malformation for Ashlyn, a four year old with a history of headaches.
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Tatum celebrated her sixth birthday with a helicopter ride and an array of stuffed animals.
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Wade-fishing with his father and a family friend in the Gulf off Freeport, Texas, Aaron was bitten by a shark three times on his right arm and hand.
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Barely 1 year old, Mackenzie was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis after a series of seizures. Now 13, she’s a full-fledged teenager.
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Transported to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center fighting for her life and then transferred to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Lexie re-learned how to do everything with help from TIRR Memorial Hermann.
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Near the end of Sarah’s fifth-grade year, her mother noticed that her back looked uneven.
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Thrown from the GMC Yukon XL he was traveling in, Ross found himself pinned beneath the 3,000-pound vehicle.
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