Imagine - daring to try and have another baby after your first weighed less than 2 1/2 lbs at birth.
Imagine - the excitement and apprehension when you find out you are pregnant.
Imagine - the total fear when you find out it's twins because you really know the meaning behind "50% chance of preterm birth"
Imagine - your worst fears coming true and you end you in the hospital at 29wks with preterm labor.
Imagine - 100's of people you've never met reaching out to support you with cards, letters, phone calls, e-mail, flowers and offers
of "if there is anything..."
Imagine - feeling closer to an e-mail group than to most of your "real" friends.
Imagine - a little glass heart sitting on a shelf.
Imagine - putting it to use as a symbol for a few close internet friends.
Imagine - it touches people so they tell others.
Imagine - getting a call from a doctor who has called every Ericson in the phone book looking for you. He wants hearts for all the
nurses in his NICU for x-mas.
Imagine - that before you know it over 3000 hearts are spread all over the WORLD!!
Imagine - the tears you cry when a parent writes to you: we want 50 to pass out at our baby's funeral.
Imagine - the tears you cry when a parent writes to you: my 25-year-old ex-preemie daughter sent this to me on her birthday and
it made me cry.
Imagine - the worst thing that ever happened in your life gives birth to the most wonderful thing that ever happened in you life.
Renea Ericson - Mom to Andrew, Maggie and Cora
Not everything that counts can be counted.
The Preemie Purple Heart
http://www.preemie-hearts.com
Not everything that can be counted counts.
-Albert Einstein
