Meet Renner

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More than 800
precious newborns are cared for every year in Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit at Sanford Children's in Sioux Falls. Neonatal Nurse
Practitioner Lisa Lubbers said the medical team cares for each one
wholeheartedly, but sometimes a child will stand out.
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"Any of us
who've been doing this for a lot of years will remember a handful of children
who have made a monumental impact on us professionally, and Renner is one of
those children for us," she said.
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Renner was born
in June 2012. He was five weeks premature and spent the first 198 days of his
life in the NICU fighting to survive. In addition to Down Syndrome, Renner had
a rare and critical condition called non-immune hydrops fetalis, which caused
his tiny body to swell with fluid.
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Doctors struggled
to keep him alive and prepared his parents for the possibility that they could
lose their child. But Renner proved that miracles do happen.
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Today, he's a
happy 6-year-old, back at home with his parents and big brother and sister.
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The family is forever
grateful to the specialists at the NICU and Sanford Children's Hospital for
saving Renner's life, and also for the assistance from the Children's Miracle
Network. Because of generous donors to the Children's Miracle Network, the
family could also take advantage of special programs and services, like Child Life, not billed to
families.
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