NOVEMBER 2020
Family Story
The Burley Family “I don’t know and don’t want to know how things would’ve turned out had we not been able to stay at RMHC. Being there allowed me to stay close to the hospital...I credit RMHC with helping us bring our little girl into this world safely.” In January 2019, Nicole and Travis
Burley were thrilled when they found out they were going to have a baby
boy. Suddenly in March, after rushing to the hospital they received devastating news that their little boy passed away in utero. Cameron Russell Burley
was delivered stillborn at 31 weeks on March 24th, 2019.
After such a painful loss, the Burley
family was both ecstatic and cautiously
optimistic when they found out they
were expecting again - this time it was with a little girl. Both parents and doc-
tors knew that with Nicole’s history, as
well as type 1 diabetes, this pregnancy was high-risk and the doctors needed to monitor it closely.
During an appointment, doctors discovered Nicole’s liver enzymes were
increasing and shortly after, she began
abnormal swelling – something she had seen in her first pregnancy. Terrified of
what this meant for their baby girl, they rushed to the hospital in Fargo to be
monitored. Thankfully, mom and baby were healthy, but they would have to stay in Fargo for the duration of the pregnancy.
With Nicole and Travis’s home 97 miles away in Fosston, MN, doctors sug-
gested they stay at Ronald McDonald
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