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March 7th 2015
Today should have been a day of celebration as today should have been Cora's first birthday. Instead today is a time to reflect and celebrate for other reasons.
Cora is what is referred to as a Micro Preemie. She was born weighing less than 1 pound, 12 ounces (800 grams) or before 26 weeks gestation. Cora spent one hundred and twenty one (121) days in Duke's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While today Cora is doing wonderful, 2014 was a difficult year for our family.
Today we announce our Fund-raising page for the March of Dimes. http://www.coranation.org/ I wholeheartedly believe that without the research from the March of Dimes, Cora would not be here today.
The March of Dimes funds prematurity research through its national research program. Grantees are improving the care of premature babies by developing new ways to help prevent or treat common complications of prematurity. For example, researchers helped develop surfactant treatment, which has saved tens of thousands of premature babies with breathing problems, as seen in the 'Introducing Cora Leigh' video (http://www.coranation.org/about.html)
I also find it fitting that today is the huge 'Battle of the Blues' rivalry of UNC vs Duke. I despised Duke for the first 35 years of my life. As a UNC MBA, we were taught to hate our 'neighbors to the north'. This will no longer be the case though. I also wholeheartedly believe that without Duke Hospital Cora would not be here either. While I will have on my UNC gear tonight, deep down at places we do not talk about at parties, alittle voice inside will be saying 'Go Duke'
What will your donation go towards? The best way I can describe it is by this. Please find a coin (quarter) and flip it twice.... I do not recall the countless times I did this at the hospital just thinking 'what if'. For Cora and all 25 weekers, the survival rate is 75%, which as a betting man that is pretty good, but when it is your own child, 25% chance of death is not great. So did your flipping come up Heads each time? To me that represented everything bad that could have happened. If it came up Heads/Tails, or Tails/Tails or Tails/Heads, all was good. Your donation today will go towards making that mortality percentage continue to push closer to zero percent.
I urge you to comment / share / tweet / email this story. I would love for Cora to receive the most individual contributions in a single day in March of Dimes history (whatever that is). :-)
Together, we can help North Carolina (and the world) have stronger, healthier babies! Thank you in advance for your support and commitment.
Matt Babaian
http://www.coranation.org/
March 7th 2015
Today should have been a day of celebration as today should have been Cora's first birthday. Instead today is a time to reflect and celebrate for other reasons.
Cora is what is referred to as a Micro Preemie. She was born weighing less than 1 pound, 12 ounces (800 grams) or before 26 weeks gestation. Cora spent one hundred and twenty one (121) days in Duke's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While today Cora is doing wonderful, 2014 was a difficult year for our family.
Today we announce our Fund-raising page for the March of Dimes. http://www.coranation.org/ I wholeheartedly believe that without the research from the March of Dimes, Cora would not be here today.
The March of Dimes funds prematurity research through its national research program. Grantees are improving the care of premature babies by developing new ways to help prevent or treat common complications of prematurity. For example, researchers helped develop surfactant treatment, which has saved tens of thousands of premature babies with breathing problems, as seen in the 'Introducing Cora Leigh' video (http://www.coranation.org/about.html)
I also find it fitting that today is the huge 'Battle of the Blues' rivalry of UNC vs Duke. I despised Duke for the first 35 years of my life. As a UNC MBA, we were taught to hate our 'neighbors to the north'. This will no longer be the case though. I also wholeheartedly believe that without Duke Hospital Cora would not be here either. While I will have on my UNC gear tonight, deep down at places we do not talk about at parties, alittle voice inside will be saying 'Go Duke'
What will your donation go towards? The best way I can describe it is by this. Please find a coin (quarter) and flip it twice.... I do not recall the countless times I did this at the hospital just thinking 'what if'. For Cora and all 25 weekers, the survival rate is 75%, which as a betting man that is pretty good, but when it is your own child, 25% chance of death is not great. So did your flipping come up Heads each time? To me that represented everything bad that could have happened. If it came up Heads/Tails, or Tails/Tails or Tails/Heads, all was good. Your donation today will go towards making that mortality percentage continue to push closer to zero percent.
I urge you to comment / share / tweet / email this story. I would love for Cora to receive the most individual contributions in a single day in March of Dimes history (whatever that is). :-)
Together, we can help North Carolina (and the world) have stronger, healthier babies! Thank you in advance for your support and commitment.
Matt Babaian
http://www.coranation.org/
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