Rachel & Erin Hubbard are the parents of twin 8 year olds. They were eagerly expecting their third baby in May of 2018. On April 26th, Rachel was admitted to the hospital due to a health concern with the baby. Baby Elaric was delivered and went immediately to the NICU. He was very sick and they had to put him on a bypass machine. Tragically, on Thursday, May 3rd, Elaric passed away. The family will need help paying for the unanticipated costs of a funeral for Elaric, and medical bills. Please consider donating even just a few dollars. Every little bit will help. It would be terrible for them to have to be stressed about huge hospital bills while grieving their son. Thank you for anything you can contribute. Rachel wrote the following and is letting me share it here: "Elaric was born on April 26th at 5:42pm. He weighed 7lbs 11oz and was almost 20 inches long. He wasn't breathing when he was born. The doctors had to resuscitate him in his very first moment in this world. They had to intubate him because he wasn't able to breath on his own. He was in the NICU for a day and a half on two different intubation machines. Neither machine was helping him breath or oxygenate his blood properly. The doctors pulled Erin and I into a room and told us they only had one other option and it was considered “heroic measures”. It was called ECMO, pretty much a bypass machine that took the blood out of his body, filtered it through a crazy machine to oxygenate it and then pushed it back through his body. Doing the job of both the lungs and heart for our barely 2 day old at the time. He was also hooked up to about 20 other machines as well. The life support machine made things worse for a day, but then there was an “eye of the storm” moment where everything was getting better and we were becoming really hopeful. But on day 6 everything changed. They knew his trachea was abnormally narrow making it impossible to breathe on his own and then it seemed like every time we saw the doctors there was more and more bad news. His heart wasn't pumping blood properly, he hadn't pooped in almost a week and he had lots of fluid around his lungs still. On top of everything the genetic testing that was done on day one had finally came back and we found out he also had trisomy 21, down syndrome. The doctors explained to us that there was nothing more they could do that could improve his quality of life. He wasn't strong enough. He died on May 3rd. He was with us for only 8 days, but he will be loved so much and remembered forever. I never thought in a million years that anything like this could ever happen to us. We are broken, but getting our pieces back together slowly. We have Ephraim and Ezekiel to keep us busy and we have been healing with each other. I wanted to post this because I need to take steps to help myself through this and being open about it sounded like a good idea."