Our little Eleanor was born prematurely, at 28 weeks, due to severe preeclampsia. Because of the severity of the preeclampsia and birth trauma, she endured life-saving measures from the first breath of life. She spent 4 months in the NICU. When she arrived home, she began having seizure and infantile spasms, a very dangerous type of seizure that can cause brain injury. Unfortunately, she continued fighting with her severe epilepsy and many other medical complications. One week before her first birthday, she passed away from an infection she acquired in the brain due to a surgery 2.5 weeks prior. In her 11.75 months of life, she endured 8 grueling surgeries. The 8th was too much and she acquired the infection. The 9th was to remove the infected shunt in her head, but due to the infection being to advanced, she gained her heavenly pass to see Our Father. We always say, we’re lucky to have a daughter here on Earth, and another in heaven watching over us.

After fighting infertility and other medical issues, we finally found ourselves pregnant in early summer of 2018. Our joy was short lived, however, as my water broke (PPROM) just a few days shy of 22 weeks pregnant. We made it a few days beyond doctors expectations, but unfortunately our son, Theodore “Teddy” Russell Michalski, passed away during labor, and was born sleeping on October 6th, 2018 at 11:58 PM. He had the most beautiful tiny toes, and sweet little nose. He weighed 15 ounces, and was 11 inches long.Teddy has since sent us two siblings, Nathan and Delilah, and we are doing our best to make sure he is a part of their lives. That they know their sibling in the stars. We started our nonprofit, A Touch of Teddy, in his honor, and we support other baby loss families by providing free Teddy Bear ornaments during the month of October.

“The God of all grace now holds what this mother's womb once did.”