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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I came into the world weighing one pound, 14 ounces. My family knows what it's like to go through the struggle of not knowing if your baby is going to be OK.
I was born nine months premature.
On social media, we have a lot of fans. It's so important to me to spread awareness of premature babies and premature birth.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.
