Family celebrates baby’s memory with gifts for other children Dawson Garman — “the happiest, smiliest, giggliest baby,” his mother said — would have celebrated his first birthday Thursday. Dawson was born with hydrops fetalis, a condition in which fluid causes severe swelling around the infant’s heart, lungs and abdomen. Doctors gave him little chance of survival, and suggested his parents terminate the pregnancy.
June 28, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star