MAY 2021
Family Story
The Sorum Family A year and a half after saying “I do”, Danielle and Jesse Sorum were elated to discover that their fertility treatments had worked, and they were expecting their first child! Danielle said that pregnancy was a dream and she loved every minute of it, but towards the end, her blood pressure began to rise. Doctors knew the safest choice was to induce her three weeks early.
oxygen turned out to be a much bigger ordeal. After three periods of unexplained apneas - moments of not breathing, Jones was transferred to Sanford Health in Fargo. Danielle
made the difficult decision to travel to be close to her son, just eleven hours postpartum. The Sorums arrived in Fargo at two in the morning, exhausted and scared beyond words, armed with nothing but the hospital bags they packed days prior.
Jones was born after a long labor. At
first he wasn’t getting enough oxygen, so he was immediately transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Altru Hospital
“The only choice I heard in the
conversation with our social worker that made any sense was Ronald
McDonald House. It was closest to my
in Grand Forks.
baby,” Danielle said. Children, especially
What Danielle and
new babies, need bonding time with
Jesse thought
parents and the power of touch to heal.
would be a
“I know without a doubt that if Jesse and
simple dose of antibiotics and
I weren’t able to be there daily, Jones’
It is never easy to be 80 miles from home, unsure of what the future holds; it was especially difficult for the Sorums, who were with us over Thanksgiving.
recovery would have taken longer.”
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