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Tiny Toes: A Couple's Journey through Infertility, Prematurity, and Depression
By Kelly K. Damron
One in eight couples cannot conceive a baby. One in eight babies is born prematurely. The stress of one or both of these events will change a person forever. How has is impacted someone you love?
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When my husband and I were diagnosed as an infertile couple I was devastated. We struggled in our marriage because we had different ideas about what this diagnosis meant to us as individuals and to us as a couple. Somehow we managed to stayed married though the infertility and were even able to return to a happy marriage just prior to beginning infertility treatments. For reasons unknown, my water broke when I was only 30 weeks pregnant. Our daughters were born weighing only 2 lbs 11oz and 2 lbs 9oz. They had to be placed on life saving equipment. Their premature birth was the event that inspired me to write my book. No parent should have to experience what we did, yet almost 500,000 babies are born too soon in the U.S. The purpose of my book is to help educate and bring awareness to prematurity.
Midwest Book Review - 5 stars on Amazon
There is a drive within the genetic code of human beings that can be as urgent as the need for food, water, or sleep. It is the urge to procreate. When Kelly Damron and her husband tried to have children in 2001 she had to deal with the problem of infertility. She was finally able to conceive only to have her twin daughters born prematurely in 2004. Then after their troubled birth, Kelly found herself experiencing postpartum depression. She went on to join the march of Dimes as an active volunteer in 2006 and became the co-chair of the Family Teams Committee for the March for Babies (formerly known as WalkAmerica). She was the Mission Family presenter for the March of Dimes WalkAmerica event on May 17, 2007, and has become involved with RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, assisting in their Marketing and Events Committees. In "Tiny Toes: A Couple's Journey Through Infertility, Prematurity, And Depression" Kelly candidly records her personal story, drawing upon both her experience and subsequent hard-won expertise. Now the mother of two happy and healthy little girls, Kelly has written "Tiny Toes" for the benefit of the thousands of others who every year must deal with what she's had to cope with -- infertility and premature births, and sometimes a combination of both. Strongly recommended reading, especially for the one in eight couples encountering infertility and the 12.5% of women whose babies are born prematurely, "Tiny Toes" is as informed and informative as it is inspired and inspiring.