The Short Story
We are Mary and Travis. Our
story begins in August 2007, when we found out we were pregnant with our first
child. The pregnancy was utterly normal, but the baby did not want to come on
its own. I was induced on April 28, 2008, which ended in a cesarean section.
When our son was born we were told that he seemed to have some form of dwarfism
and that he wasn’t breathing much. A half hour later, a neonatologist told us
that he thought Anakin had Thanatophoric Dysplasia. Our world came crashing
down. Anakin lived on a ventilator until May 30, 2008, when we took him home.
He passed away at home in my arms at 3 a.m. on June 1, 2008.