March 8, 2009

Since coming home, I have been thinking a lot about my experience. I really want to help those who are in the same position that I was in a few months ago. I have been working on starting a support group for parents of preemies, and I just want to help. So I am going to do the March for Babies in May. This is a fund raising event for March of Dimes, and I, along with some of my family will be doing a five mile walk in Logan. Did you know that nearly 10% of all live births in Utah are considered premature? In the United States, one baby in eight is born premature. Premature babies are considered 37 weeks and earlier. Very preterm is considered 32 weeks and earlier, and 1.5 % are born that early in Utah. The earlier the baby is, the more problems and complications can arise. At 26 weeks, Amaree is considered very preterm, and also a very rare birth. I am in the most safe age range, weight range, and health range, and it still happened. Please help support us. I know that times are hard, so if you can only donate a few dollars, it will be appreciated. Thank you for helping us fight prematurity. Please check out my website for the March at www.marchforbabies.org/amareechloee.

This is Amaree looking up at me, and again, she is blurry because she moves so much! She is so curious about everything.

Amaree is continuing to do well, and this week is a big week for her. She has a six-month prenatal follow-up in Salt Lake as well as her six month well-child check-up this week. The prenatal follow-up will include an eye exam, hearing test, I believe they will even do a chest x-ray to check her heart and lungs, and a whole battery of screenings.


One of our friends had a Bumbo chair, and their baby really liked it. Amaree loves to be sitting up, looking around and is happiest when she is involved with the happenings so we used our gift cards to get her a Bumbo. She loved it. She is the Queen on the throne.

The Queen on her throne.

We take her in the kitchen and she watches me cook from her throne, and she just likes to watch the happenings of the house from her special chair. She makes me laugh with her funny little faces and sounds.