Wordless Wednesday 4/21/10 - Sleeping Beauties

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Shameless Plug

Anyone who spent any time around me when we were pregnant with the girls no doubt heard me express my concerns and fears.  They were not unfounded, as we had multiple risk factors involved.

Twins often come early.
I fully expected to be delivering the girls early.
I expected them to spend weeks, if not months, in the NICU(Neonatal Intensive Care Unit).
In fact, when there was an early indicator around 31 weeks for possible preterm labor in our future, we were given steroid shots to boost the lung development of the girls and give them a better opportunity should they arrive early, since babies that are born early often have underdeveloped lungs.

Our girls didn't arrive unexpectedly.  Our girls did not have underdeveloped lungs.  Our miracle babies were born as planned at 38 weeks, with no NICU time required, in perfect health, fully developed.

But premature delivery is often a bump in the road for many babies.  Sometimes it's more of a rocky road or even a ridge of mountains.  Medicine has advanced greatly over the years, and many babies born prematurely can be treated for things such as underdeveloped lungs, for example.  March of Dimes is instrumental in advancing this area of medicine. 


I follow another blog, The Wilson Triplets.  The family is raising money for the March of Dimes as part of the annual March for Babies Walk. Won't you take a moment to stop by The Wilson Triplets blog?  The triplets are as cute as can be and the parents are excellent photographers and writers. 

And while you're visiting, please take a moment to follow the link to their March of Dimes team site.

The Wilson Triplets' mother has a goal of $960 -- $10 for every day one of their daughters stayed in the NICU, a successful journey, thanks to medical advances directly resulting from research and development by the March of Dimes.

Please consider sponsoring them, so that future babies can have even better opportunities for good health. 
Thank you for allowing me to shamelessly plug a charitable fund raiser.

(And no, we don't feed Megan bottles of mustard -- but it was in the fridge at just the right height for her to take while she was "helping" mommy in the kitchen)

 

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