June 8th, 2003

Little did we know that on June 8th 2003, our lives were going to start changing. A beautiful little girl named Jasmine was born much earlier than her expected due date, weighing only  two pounds 15 ounces. She was born to a single mother in Newark, New Jersey, who already had a three year old daughter. Jasmine stayed in the hospital for a couple of months until she was ready to go home. I don't know too much about the beginning months of her life, but they seemed to be as normal as any baby's first months. She was drinking her bottle, and as time went on, she even pulled herself up in her playpen. One morning when her mother woke up with Jasmine next to her in bed, she found her unresponsive. She called 911 and did CPR on her until the paramedics arrived. They rushed her to the hospital but the damage had already been done. Jasmine went from being a normal ten month old girl, to a baby with severe brain damage from lack of oxygen to the brain.