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.
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.
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
I gave up before birth.
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.
Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.
When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.
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.
Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.
He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
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.
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
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.
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 encourage my fans to get involved, whether it's just educating yourself on premature birth, or you can donate or volunteer.
I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
It will save the health care system a lot of money. You don't need to prevent the births of very many really sick babies to pay for hundreds or thousands of attempts at making babies through easy PGD.
I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.
Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
