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Nixon Seagraves is a typical toddler – all boy. It’s something that Emily and her husband, Joby, doubt they’ll ever take for granted – not after all that Nixon has been through.

In the beginning Emily’s pregnancy was normal, then her life changed during a third trimester ultrasound. The ultrasound revealed that the ventricles in Nixon’s brain – the structures that hold spinal fluid – were twice as large as normal for his stage of development.

Only a few causes of severe

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