Allison Petersburg's Story
In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, we share Allison's story. After struggling with infertility for almost three years, Allison and John Petersburg got pregnant with twins after multiple rounds of IVF. The babies needed to be delivered by emergency cesarean birth at 24 weeks—more than three months early.
The devastating loss of their baby Lucas stays with them until this day. Now their daughter, Haley, is a thriving six year old, but had challenges of her own. Their NICU journey was extremely difficult with one complication after another. Preterm birth and its complications are the largest contributors to infant death in the U.S. and globally. It’s possible for women to have healthy pregnancies, but the U.S. remains among the most dangerous developed nations to give birth. In the U.S. each year, 1 in 10 babies is born preterm. Help us support families like Allison's, and raise awareness of the prematurity health crisis.
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