While pregnant, Nicole receive a pretty grim diagnosis for her unborn son, Jacob. Doctors found a cyst on his brain, and other abnormal development. Nicole did not think she would be able to carry Jacob to term, but through a second and third opinion, they were given more positive news and gained more hope. Jacob spent the majority of his first year in the hospital, and was diagnosed with Tracheomalacia, an abnormal brain stem, and a single gene mutation- that no one else in the world has been diagnosed with.