New mom Amy Stinton was concerned when her 14-month-old baby, Oliver, developed a few rashes. She took him to the doctor thinking he had chicken pox, only to learn had her baby had, in fact, contracted herpes. While Stinton refuses to place the blame on anyone, she says that Oliver likely became infected after being kissed by someone with a cold sore.

Neonatal care has come a long way in the last few decades, but sometimes doctors have to get creative to save a little life. Pixie Grant spent the first few moments of her life not in her mother’s arms, but in an extremely bizarre place: a plastic sandwich bag. Yup, a sandwich bag! Pixie was born at just 28 weeks, once doctors determined she wasn’t gaining weight in utero. The medical staff tried coming up with a plan to delay her birth, but apparently, little Pixie was determined to have an October birthday.

Mindy and Keith got married in 2010, and within six months, the happy couple decided to start growing their family. After 18 months of infertility, Mindy had no idea why she couldn’t get pregnant. But instead of going in for her planned hysteroscopy, she finally had a positive pregnancy test.

Stephanie Smith’s son, Isaiah Quinn, started mysteriously developing a painful looking rashing all over his body when he was only three months old. The red, blistering rash began to spread from a cut that formed around his cheek that would naturally flare up whenever he was around strong smelling perfumes or intense fabric softeners.

When Lyndsey and Benjamin Scot Miller found out they were pregnant, nothing could contain their excitement. To bring a baby into this world was more than they could ever ask for. But they weren’t expecting to become parents on July 16, 2012. Lyndsey went into labor three and a half months early. It turns out that the cramps she was feeling at work were actually contractions. There was no way to keep the baby from being born, according to the doctors.

There is nothing in the world that Jillian Benfield loves more than her children. When she learned that her second child, Anderson, had Down Syndrome, it had no effect whatsoever on how much she would love her child.