Featured Family Story
(In Their Own Words)
Fifteen weeks prior to my due date, I felt like something was not right and asked my doctor to meet me at the hospital in Brevard County. He quickly realized I would be having the baby very soon and requested a transfer to Florida Hospital in Orlando. There, we could receive care in a more appropriate neonatal intensive care unit.
Our daughter, Sadie, was born just a few hours later, weighing 1 pound, 13 ounces. She was just 12 inches long. Obviously, her survival was our top priority, but we were also devastated to think that our home was over an hour away in Melbourne. How were we going to be in two places at once? We could not leave Sadie alone in the hospital as she fought for her life.
One of the nurses in the hospital suggested the Ronald McDonald House close by and gave us a referral. Upon my discharge from the hospital, we checked in to the Ronald McDonald House, right on the campus of the hospital. We were only moments away from our daughter.
