March for Babies 2011

Camron Michael 2lbs 8oz Caden Christopher 2lbs 4oz These are my sweet "little" boys. My boys who barely weighed 2 pounds at birth. One of which dropped below 2 pounds. 2 little boys. 4 very weak lungs. Lungs that despite the steroid shots first given at 24 weeks and watched daily for the following month for "practice breaths" still just couldn't work when they made their GRAND entrance into this world almost 11 weeks before they were "due". Lungs that were given surfactant so they would be able to "work". Surfactant was discovered by research funded by the March for Babies. We strongly support this organization because of this! If any of you would like to walk with us this year in honor of Camron and Caden or any other child born prematurely, please join us on April 30th! You can get all the information you need here. If you would like to donate to the cause, you can do so on that link as well! It is tax deductible! If you don't want to walk or donate, please just pray that we will have a good turn out and the Greensboro organization will meet their goal....and that one day, ALL babies will be born HEALTHY!

Here is a poem that I have probably posted here before. I wrote this some time before the first March for Babies event!

A premature baby Born too early, too small

Regardless of his size

He is the strongest of them all

Surgeries, tubes, wires

Daily heel pricks and more

Think of all the pain

His little body must endure

It will be a roller coaster ride

His doctors and nurses say

As his Mother and Father

You just bow your head and pray

And hope that the ride Isn't very long

And that you as his parent

Can be only half as strong

With God's will

And all the research being done

That day will soon come

When the fight with prematurity

Will be WON!!!

**anyone who plans to walk with us, please email me at chrisjennjax@aol.com and let me know!