“For more than 75 years, moms and babies have benefited from March of Dimes research, education, vaccines, and breakthroughs, including right here, in our own community.

Rockdale Medical Center has a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or a NICU, that provides care for babies that may be born too soon or for babies that may be experiencing an illness right after birth that may compromise their health.  The babies born here in our community can stay here and receive the care that they need in order to recover, grow, and thrive.  The treatment and research that helps and saves our babies locally is locally supported by the March of Dimes.

In Georgia, 1 in 8 babies in Georgia is born too soon.  In an average week in Georgia: 2,546 babies are born; 336 are born too soon; 237 are born weighing <5 ½ pounds; and, 20 die before their first birthday.  March of Dimes raises money locally, here in our community, to help our babies who are born too sick or too soon.  March for Babies is the premier fundraising event for the March of Dimes.  And our community has its very own March for Babies Event!  On Saturday, May 10, the 2014 Rockdale/Newton/Walton March for Babies Event will take place starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Pavilion in Olde Town.  The money raised by March for Babies events supports research, education, and community-based programs that help moms have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies. March of Dimes grantees conduct research to find answers to the problems that threaten the health of babies.

By participating in March for Babies, you help ensure every baby gets the healthy start in life they deserve.  You can start or join a March for Babies Team today by going to marchforbabies.org to sign up, or by contacting Ashley Young-Roesler, Central Georgia Division Director, at 404-720-5327, or by emailing at [email protected] .

March on!”