Bloggers Unite ~ Fight For Preemies

543,000 babies in the US each year are born premature

that’s 12.8% of the total babies born

25% of these births are due to early induction or c section due to pregnancy complications or health problems in the mother or fetus.  In these cases early delivery is probably the safest thing for mother and child

These are just a few statistics from the March of Dimes, I’m not a big number person but let me give you a few numbers of my own.

Annie was born 43 days early ~Her early birth was necessary to save her mother’s life as well as her own.

She lived 73 days

She’s been gone 78 days

That’s 5 days longer than she lived

That not right.  We need to fight, we need save babies like Annie.

My heart breaks every day for Annie and for her mother (my cousin) her father, her 2 older brothers, her Mema (my aunt) and everyone else in my family who welcomed Annie into this world with hearts full of love, hope, and dreams of the future.

I have been forever changed by Annie, not a day goes by that I don’t think of her and hold my kids a little tighter, a little closer.

I blog today for you Annie because I love you and because we all need to fight to stop unnecessary premature birth.  To find out how you can help visit the March of Dimes website and join the fight. Do it today. Every person, every day can make a difference.

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~Kim