Jeremy Rucinski, 45, has managed anxiety, depression, ADHD, and being on the neurodivergent spectrum since he was a kid. He tried to stay ahead of his symptoms with one-on-one therapy, but when a new job pushed him past his breaking point, he knew he needed something more. 

"Getting a call center job exasperated what was already underlying,” he said. “Call, call, call, call all day long got my anxiety going.” 

He turned to his primary care provider and tried medication in hopes of finding relief. 

"I tried maybe 8 medications, and they would all make me feel too weird to work. I was either woozy or had mental fogginess, or they would maybe work for a month or two and then the symptoms would come back.” 

Jeremy took a leave from work.  

Carrie Zirbes, mother of three, had seen her share of ultrasound images. She knew right away that something was different about the ultrasound to confirm her fourth pregnancy. 

There was the usual fluttering of the heartbeat, but also an odd blob. As Carrie and her midwife looked closer at the baby, they got a wave. 

“All of a sudden out of the background comes this wiggling hand,” Carrie said. “So we had a baby in the front and then a wiggling hand in the back." 

The wiggling hand belonged to a second baby. Carrie was pregnant with a rare form of twins.