Noah Riley Holt was born March 5, 2014 in Beverly, Massachusetts to Elisa (Lynch) Holt and Mitch Holt. Noah has a younger brother Samuel Holt. His maternal grandparents Lynne & Richard Lynch and paternal grandparents Lynn & Kenneth Holt. Noah woke up paralyzed from the waist down at 6 months of age and diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) a sub-type of transverse myelitis (TM). AFM is a rare neuro-immune disorder. Since Noah's onset he has done intensive physical therapy to regain what AFM tried to take from him.