Ally Brooke Quotes

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.

I was born nine months premature.

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

As a premature baby myself, my family faced many challenges in ensuring that I had a healthy start at life. There are so many obstacles for these babies and their families that each new day is a milestone.

On social media, we have a lot of fans. It's so important to me to spread awareness of premature babies and premature birth.

Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

I know that I have this platform with our fans and with social media and all of that good stuff. I really hope that people become more aware of premature birth, and I hope there's more that can be done to prevent this.

Everyone has an image of a premature child, but until you live it and experience it, you just don't know how bad it is.

I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.

I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

I feel so privileged as a mom to be part of a significant organization like the March of Dimes that works hard to prevent prematurity and helps moms to have healthy babies.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.

I encourage my fans to get involved, whether it's just educating yourself on premature birth, or you can donate or volunteer.

I'm working with the March of Dimes to help make sure more babies have the chance of tomorrow.

East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.