Born in a Hawaii hospital in 1980, Mike Ayers was adopted and raised on the East Coast. Now it's vital that he find his birth family.

Little 4-year-old Jaxson Ayers is unique in many ways.

For one, he’s a Leap Day baby, born on February 29, 2016—which means he’ll only have an official birthday every four years.

And second—and probably most importantly—he’s been a fighter for all of his short life, bravely suffering from multiple congenital conditions which have taken his family on a harrowing medical journey they could have never imagined just a few years ago.

Jaxson's Medical Journey

Jaxson’s health concerns began from the moment he entered the world in Woodbridge, Virginia. Right away, his underdeveloped left ear and facial features were obvious to the naked eye. These disorders, his parents Mike and Kristin Ayers learned, were called hemifacial microsomia and microtia of the left ear.

But as shocking as they were, the ear and facial structure concerns would soon become the least of the Ayers family's concerns. Within days of Jaxson's birth, they learned that he also had a few congenital heart defects (CHD), including a circumflex aorta and a vascular ring.

“It was a blow to the gut,” Mike Ayers said. “I couldn’t breathe. We were in shock.”

But the diagnoses weren’t over yet. As time went on, the list of Jaxson’s afflictions grew to include congenital hearing loss in both ears. He will always be deaf, Mike explained.

Devastated by their baby boy’s conditions and the news that his life would never be “normal,” Mike and Kristin pressed the doctors at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for answers, determined to learn all they could about Jaxson’s multiple disorders and what could be done to treat them. They also sought an answer for the biggest question of all — Why?

Why Jaxson, when he has three half-sisters and one full-blooded sister, all of whom were born perfectly healthy?