{"id":3631,"date":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-pregnancy-want-to-feel-good-inside-this-weekend-march-for-babies\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"condition-pregnancy-want-to-feel-good-inside-this-weekend-march-for-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-pregnancy-want-to-feel-good-inside-this-weekend-march-for-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Feel Good This Weekend? Sign Up for the March for Babies Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thirty-six years ago this week, my mom gave birth two months early to a two-and-a-half pound baby with undeveloped lungs.<\/p>\n
That teeny-tiny, very sick preemie is now a horse vet in Virginia, and her survival is in no small part due to the herculean efforts of the 75-year-old March of Dimes<\/a>. The group—founded by FDR—funds crucial research on how to prevent prematurity, and make sure fragile babies like my sister survive and thrive.<\/p>\n This weekend is the group's big fundraiser, called March for Babies<\/a>. If you've been meaning to get more steps into your day, sign up to walk. (Just go to their website, plug in your zip code<\/a> and find a walk near you. They're all across the country, starting this weekend, and most are 2 to 5 miles long.)<\/p>\n Can't make the local march? You can help by donating money, or even United miles.<\/p>\n We know from history that The March of Dimes puts their cash to excellent use. In 1977, my sister's kind of outcome was the exception. These days, it is the rule.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Thirty-six years ago this week, my mom gave birth two months early to a two-and-a-half pound baby with undeveloped lungs. That teeny-tiny, very sick preemie is now a horse vet in Virginia, and her survival is in no small part due to the herculean efforts of the 75-year-old March of Dimes. The group—founded by FDR—funds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36,35],"tags":[37,39,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n