Pregnancy was rocky for Cheryl and Sean Martin from their first, in 1996. Cheryl, 27, couldn’t keep food down. She was transported to the hospital on several occasions for vaginal bleeding. When she told her doctor she was worried, Cheryl said, he seemed to dismiss her concerns: “Nothing was really ever done until I went to the hospital and complained,” Cheryl recalls. “Then I was sent home—and the next thing you know I’m actually en route to the [hospital] and she was born early.”

The Cleveland couple’s daughter, Cydnee Janae Martin was born six weeks premature on May 29, 1997, and weighed just four pounds six ounces. She remained in neo-natal intensive care for about three weeks before being released. “When