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What

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

One out of every eight babies in the US is born prematurely. Babies spend days, weeks, and even months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This can be a very stressful time for parents. This booklet helps parents build strong relationships with their premature babies which builds a solid social-emotional foundation.

Activities

By providing free booklets in English and Spanish in take-home hospital gift baskets, at clinics and at pediatrician's offices, we can help parents with preterm babies understand the many ways they can care for and bond with their new child.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $50
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $19,950
Total Funding Goal: $20,000

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Why

Potential Long Term Impact

This booklet will help 20 parents of preterm babies form strong bonds with their new baby in the NICU and when he or she comes home which nurtures the baby’s healthy overall growth and development.

Project Message

The brochure [Early Arrival] is really wonderful..and will be very helpful to parents (and also to NICU caregivers)…Congraulations on this much needed and fine product.
- Heidelise Als, PhD, Harvard University

Who

Where

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Education.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 03, 2008.

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