Last Updated on Friday, November 15, 2013 Friday, November 15, 2013

The March of Dimes brings attention to prematurity with other organizations worldwide on World Prematurity Day. We partner with them to deliver information that impacts roughly 15 million babies worldwide—more than one in ten born each year. Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of prematurity worldwide, accounting for approximately 15 percent of all premature births in the US alone. Please share this information, and help us make others more aware and supportive of our mission.

Here are links to some articles that will update you on the statistics, concerns, advances, action items, and reasons for hope.

• Delivering action on preterm birth (The Lancet)
• Born too soon: Global action report (Save the Children, March of Dimes and World Health Organization)
• Join the conversation on November 17 (Healthy Newborn Network)
• World Prematurity Day Events (Maternal Health Task Force)
• US cannot brag about infant mortality rates (Preeclampsia Foundation)
• Prematurity means separation, medical complications, sometimes depression (Preeclamspia Foundation)
• From hope to joy (BabyCenter.com)
• Why do we need a world prematurity day (Impatient Optimists Blog – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
• European Prematurity Group: Socks for Life campaign(European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants)
• Prenatal monitoring and care (Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies)
• Report from India (India Times)