Kristen Christie’s daughters have come a long way.

Emma was brought into the world in 2004 at Mount Sinai Hospital weighing just 2 pounds. Her younger sister, Sloane, was delivered weighing 3 pounds, 14 ounces in 2007.

“When I think back to how tiny they were I wondered if they were going to live,” says Christie. “But they didn’t just live – because of Mount Sinai, they have thrived. What Mount Sinai did with my children was nothing short of miraculous.”

Christie praises her doctors, nurses, residents, lactation consultants, respiratory therapists, and social workers with being supportive and encouraging, for allowing her to be present during medical rounds, for answering her endless questions, and for providing her with the resources to connect with other moms and services.

“Mount Sinai showed me there was light at the end of an impossibly long tunnel, and the staff navigated it with me. Everyone did more than they had to. It was amazing.”

Though her daughters are too young to know it, they once had an older brother. Ethan was born at Mount Sinai in 2000 at 24 weeks gestation. “Because of my doctors, I got to meet my son, hold him and spend 11 days with him before he passed away,” says Christie. “If I’d been anywhere else, I surely would have lost my pregnancy and baby in one day.”

Looking back, Christie couldn’t imagine being treated anywhere other than here. “The health-care team at Mount Sinai helped me during some of the scariest times of my life,” says Christie, “but I only have outstanding things to say about the hospital that gave me a family.”