Sunday, November 02, 2008

Sign the Petition for Preemies

November is Prematurity Awareness Month. Today more than 1,400 babies in the U.S. will be born prematurely. That's 1 out of every 8. Many will be too small, too sick, or too underdeveloped to go home, and some will never make it that far. Babies like Enid face weeks or even months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). These babies face an increased risk of serious medical complications and death.

Most of you know that we have been top fundraisers for Walk America (now called March for Babies) in the past. We were fortunate enough to have an obvious cause for Enid being born early and did not have to directly use services of the March of Dimes, but that didn't stop us from helping others. There are lots of families who never really know why they're babies are born early, and March of Dimes strives to fund research, provide support to families, educate women, and advocate for health care coverage... that's just a few.

Please check out
this link and sign the petition, because every little bit counts.

1 Comments:

At 11/04/2008 10:33 AM, Blogger Carrie said...

Signed. :)

 

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