June 12th

Tyler as well as the rest of us will be walking again for the March of Dimes 3 mile walk up at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on June 12, 2010. Please check out the March of Dimes site you see on the right. If you can, we love to have donations or sponsors.

I've been working on the Parent Council at the Lebanon ICN for the last year or so now. I've enjoyed volunteering quite a bit. I've had the pleasure of working on a few project aimed to help parents transition into ICN life a little easier. I've also shared my thoughts on different topics that may make life a little more comfortable for parent and healthier for baby. Working closely with the Parent Council, I've had the pleasure to see first hand where some of the money raised by walks is used for. A few things the Parent Council has purchased with money granted by the March of Dimes are new mirrors and chairs for parents to comfortably hold their babies in kangaroo care (when baby and parent are able to be skin to skin), information booklets to help new parents adjust to ICN life, and binders similar to the one we made for Tyler to give out to long term care children to help families organized and keep important information at hand. These are just some of the items and programs I've seen to help the children and parents of the ICN. Without generous donations these projects and much of the research the March of Dimes fund can not happen.

There is still a lot we do not know about premature birth and what causes it. By sponsoring us in our walk, you can help give back to a cause the most certainly helped Tyler win his fight to survive.

http://www.marchforbabies.org/SharronBenRachelTyler