On June 29, 2009, Ashley Moses held her newborn son in her arms for the first time.

"He was perfect," Moses recalled of the moment.

Moses and her husband, David, named the 8 pound and a quarter-ounce-baby Roger Allen Moses. Doctors told them Allen, as they called him, was a "very healthy baby."

But, several months later, mother's intuition told Moses that something was wrong.

"At 4 months, he wasn't rolling over, holding his head up, holding his bottle or anything a normal baby his age should be doing," said Moses. "In my mind and deep down, I knew there was something wrong."

But, the pediatrician told Moses her son was just going to be a child who developed at a slower rate.

"As a mom, I didn't want anything to be wrong with my baby boy, so I took the doctor at her word," said Moses. "Allen looked so perfect; how could something be wrong with him?"

But as more months passed by, Moses did not notice any change.  

See full story in the Wednesday, Feb. 27, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.