Kaitlin was 20 weeks pregnant when she learned, during a routine ultrasound, that something was wrong with her unborn baby’s heart.
IWK Patients
![Satchel Tate, IWK patient, in his baseball uniform.](http://cdn.iwkfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/meet_our_heroes_preview_240x200_/public/stories/2024-02/preview-story-images/Satchel%20Tate_in%20As%20uniform.jpg?itok=Lyf5UYlg)
When Satchel Tate, 14, collapsed suddenly during his baseball game on July 30, 2022, his parents, Gord and Rebecca, never could have imagined it was because he had a stroke.
![IWK patient, Baylee King](http://cdn.iwkfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/meet_our_heroes_preview_240x200_/public/stories/2024-02/preview-story-images/Baylee%20King%2001.jpg?itok=ihdClKa1)
In 2018, Marlee MacNaughton and Shane King from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, experienced a devastating stillbirth. Months after receiving the go-ahead from doctors, Marlee became pregnant again.
![Jesse Kilfoil in IWK NICU](http://cdn.iwkfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/meet_our_heroes_preview_240x200_/public/stories/2023-11/preview-story-images/Jesse%20LeBlanc%20-meetourheroes.jpeg?itok=dwAWmBlg)
When Morgan’s water broke 11 weeks early in August 2023, neither she nor her partner, Brennan, could have predicted what their premature baby boy, Jesse, would have to overcome.
![Perri Vincent](http://cdn.iwkfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/meet_our_heroes_preview_240x200_/public/stories/2023-11/preview-story-images/IMG_7352.jpeg?itok=8ZCm-Zo1&h=3afc2399)
Brier Vincent and her husband, Trevor, of Halifax, NS, were 20 weeks into their pregnancy when they learned their unborn baby girl, Perri, had a duplicated dilated right kidney.