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Sam

Our Kids  / Sam Isovaleric Acidemia My pregnancy and delivery with Sam were normal. After he was born in 1993, he started to vomit, and it became progressively more over his first few weeks and was projectile. He had some

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Hudson and Hope

Our Kids  / Hudson & Hope Isovaleric Acidemia The last time we wrote an article for OAA, our children were quite young and we still felt a bit inadequate in caring for their metabolic needs.  A lot has changed in

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​Gavin

Our Kids  / Gavin Isovaleric Acidemia June 7th 2005 was one of the best days of our life’s, Gavin James was born and he was perfect! We were in the hospital for the usual few days, Gavin was a great

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Elizabeth IVA

Our Kids  /   Elizabeth Isovaleric Acidemia On September 29, 2005 at 5:41 am, Kent Robert joined our family.  He has born a healthy baby weighing in at 8 lbs 11 ounces and measuring 22 inches in length.  He has

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Olivia

Our Kids  / Olivia IVA It was the summer of 1992; I was getting ready to enter my Senior Year in high school. I was working at a Kiwanis Camp for disabled children and adults when I became so sick.

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Austin

My name is Fernando, and with my wife Lorena are the proud parents of two beautiful boys, Adrian and Gabriel.

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Clark

Casey was born on a hot July day in 2008. His mom’s third child, he was delivered a week early via C-section, weighing 8.5 pounds.

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Mia and Cadi

Our Kids  / Mia & Cadi Isovaleric Acidemia As I sit here writing this article, a wave of emotions overcome me. It is only natural as I look through photos of troubled times when my children suffered a metabolic crisis

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Moriarty

Moriarty was born to what we thought to be healthy, despite her dad asking about a weird smell that I dismissed as him being crazy because to me she smelled like a typical baby.

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