Chapter 4: My Son has a Purpose Too: A Father’s Story of Autism

September 16, 2010 was one of the happiest days of my life. It was the day that my son Landon was born. Before Landon, my wife and I had lost three children, each just weeks into my wife’s pregnancy. Doctors said that if Landon could make it to 24 weeks, he would have a chance at life. However, in order for Landon to make it to 24 weeks, my wife would have to undergo a surgical procedure; the same procedure done when we lost our second child. So with losing three children, a 24 week hump we had to get over, and the uncertainty that this surgical procedure would even work, you can imagine how nervous my wife and I were throughout this pregnancy. But on September 16, 2010, after being in the womb for 38 weeks, my son had arrived.