04 4 / 2012
What gave you the interest of playing baseball in the first place?
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04 4 / 2012
This was my daughter a day after birth. Yes, she was full term, yes she was a normal sized baby, but she was born with a collapsed lung. When she took her first breath the liquid that fills a babies lungs did not switch out quick enough and caused her one side to puncture. When this happened i did not hear my baby girl cry, and when she took breaths they were short and hiccup-y. I held my daughter for 10 minutes before she was taken away to the nursery. From there i waited hours to hear about what was happening, hours later three doctors from another hospital had come in pushing a transport unit with my daughter inside into my room to tell me that the hospital my daughter was birthed in was not prepared to handle a problem like this. Apparently this hospital wasn’t equipped to handle anything besides a perfect birth. So she was transported out to a hospital an hour away from me.To a hospital that had a great Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This photo was brought to me the next day from my mom who had spent the first night with her along side other babies that were barely 2lbs and monitors going off every few minutes so nurses could check on them. This photo was all i had for 3 days. As you can see my daughter had wires and things, she was on monitors and occasionally on oxygen. When i was let out of the hospital i came home to emails written by the nurses telling me what days she had oxygen and when she didn’t need it. Finally when i got to see my daughter i had to walk down a hall in a hospital with photos of little kids from their time in the NICU to how they’ve grow up to that present day, reading some of those stories really touches you at heart. I then had to scrub in and walk through 2 sets of doors to finally get into the NICU where there were lines of incubators with babies of all sorts needing all different things, parents next to these incubators with tears in their eyes just wanting to hold their children. I was lucky, i could hold mine. It hurt so much coming and going to see these other babies and their parents. These babies are the ones March For Babies helps. This is why i am marching and raising money this year.
Please donate or share to help raise money, EVERY dollar counts. This is my story, my reason… there are thousands of others.
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24 3 / 2012
PLAYOFFS TIME!
Sweetest sound in the entire world!!!
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24 3 / 2012
Okay any other Oz fans think that Chris Pronger resembles Tebias Beecher?The Captain is in the house! From Flyers’ twitter.
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24 3 / 2012
please reblog/share to help!
- 1 in every 115 births the babies are born as still borns (deceased)
- 13 million babies are born each year, 12% are born prematurely, of those born around 24 weeks only half of them survive.
- about 120,000 babies are born in the U.S. with one of the thousands of birth defects. Most common are down syndrome, cleft lip, cleft palate, spin a bifida, and heart problems. There’s many more that we do not know cures for.
Help raise awareness an reblog. Also help by donating, every dollar counts!
