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We miss you, Alex

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · Posted November 5, 2009
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  • Yesterday was you 2nd b-day and you were only with us a short time. You left us 2 years ago today. We love you and miss you, love mommy, daddy and your brothers ...

Happy Birthday!!!

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply November 4, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Today is Brennan's and Christian's 2nd birthday ...

Hyperinsulinism

Hyperinsulinism
  • By Hyperinsulinism · Posted October 7, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • What is Congenital HI? Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) is a disorder in which the insulin cells of the pancreas (beta cells) secrete too much insulin and at the wrong time. Excess insulin causes low blood ...

Alicia Journey with Congenital Hyperinsulinism

Hyperinsulinism
  • By Hyperinsulinism · New reply October 6, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Congenital hyperinsulinism (excessive insulin production) is the most common cause of persistent or recurring hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in infancy. Many infants and children affected with any of ...

add me on facebook....

MiracleX2
  • By MiracleX2 · New reply September 15, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • so I would like to invite all of you wonderful women to add me on facebook, that way to keep better connections and you can find out more about me and vice versa. Melissa Overy on facebook ...

Accomplished...

MiracleX2
  • By MiracleX2 · New reply September 7, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I must say at this very moment I feel like the proudest mom in the world!!! Dom just now I layed on his stomach and he went from looking like doing a pushup to sitting. The very 1st time he has ever sat ...

Super Keegan Chronicles #1 8/25/09 -- From the Beginning

PoeDunk
  • By PoeDunk · New reply August 28, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • I'm glad I found this site, because at the Children's hospital we are the only Neuroblastoma patients, and it's hard. Yes there are a lot of other Cancer patients there, many are leukemia patients, and ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
  • 13 replies
  • All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
  • 28 replies
  • Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...

please join us

mommieslittleman
  • By mommieslittleman · Posted June 16, 2009
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  • would love for all you to come on over and visit our page, would love to have you come visit, pretty much a home away from home, just like here and face book it is another place to come and visit to share ...

Please join us

mommieslittleman
  • By mommieslittleman · Posted June 16, 2009
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  • I would like you all to join us at Preemie Central on Ning, I Created this site to offer a place like this one and face book as a way of having more then one place to go when you need someone to talk ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
  • 32 replies
  • We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...

Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 9, 2009
  • 35 replies
  • Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...

Meet Jc

Hyperinsulinism
  • By Hyperinsulinism · Posted June 3, 2009
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  • I would like to introduce myself, my name is JC. I am the youngest of three with two older sisters, Becca 6 and Marisa 5. I was born in June 2008 and weighed in at 8 lbs 12 ozs at only 37 weeks. I arrived ...

back on the moniter again

mommieslittleman
  • By mommieslittleman · Posted May 29, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • The neonalogist and the pediatrician put Noah back on the moniter he went awhile without having blue spells till recently he started all over with the blue spells again, can it get any better? Dawn ...

Bren's page

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply May 21, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • I started a caring bridge page to help people understand more of course it didn't work but I can keep people who do get it up to dated and my family as well. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/brenny ...

People Just don't get it.

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply May 11, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • I belong to another group that does not understand why Bren can't come home without nursing. They don't understand. Bren requires 24 hr care which means someone needs to be awake 24 hrs a day. They will ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...

weight loss

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply April 29, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Took C to the pedi today and he lost 3 ounces. Two weeks ago he had gained 8 ounces. He is now 17.13. He will be referred to the ftt clinic and she also wants him to get and upper GI done. I have no idea ...

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