Help save the life of a baby!

Below is a message I sent to all my family & friends... Please consider donating:

Family & Friends,

Roughly one year ago I had the scariest moment of my life. I was on a flight from Boston to D.C. and Tara went into labor 13 weeks early. When I landed and learned of her situation I ran and got on a flight back to Boston more scared than I thought humanly possible. Tara & I were blessed that doctors were able to stop her labor and Abbie came only 5 weeks early but every day thousands of people are not as fortunate. The worst part of all this is that doctors simply don’t know what causes premature labor, and therefore there is really no way to prevent this situation.

The March of Dimes has kicked off a 5 year Preventing Prematurity campaign to help stop the increasing problem of premature labor. May 1st is the March of Dimes Walk America, a walk to help raise funds for this cause. Our family has been very involved with this campaign because we were able to see first hand what a horrible problem this is - and we want to help stop it. We are a mission family for the March of Dimes, and we have our own family team for Walk America this year. We are "The Williamson Family Team" and are walking in honor of Abbie and for every baby that is born too soon.

I am asking you to please sponsor me for the walk this year. Our Family Team goal is to raise $8,000, and I am hoping we can make it. To make it even more exciting, Tara and I have a bet going on which one of us can raise the most money. The loser has to do the other person's chores for a month so I am really hoping to win. As my friends and family, this should give you extra incentive to sponsor me:)

You can sponsor me directly online at http://www.walkamerica.org/mwillmsn

Thanks for your support,

Mark

MyTinyHands.com up and running

I am proud of my wife today... MyTinyHands.com has launched! My wife and I had our first child last July 4th, and she came 5 weeks early. Given how early she was our doctors urged us to make sure everyone washed their hands before touching her... we thought it would be easy to accomplish this, but we were shocked at how many strangers would just walk up to our stroller and reach in to touch Abbie. My wife wanted to put an end to this so she created a sign that asked people not to touch her without washing their hands. We were happy that it worked, litterally people would walk up to the stroller and stop to read the sign, then not touch her. What we were surprised about was how many other parents asked us where we bought the sign, because they had the same problem.

Over the last few months my wife has worked hard to launch this business and I am incredibly proud of her. The baby signs are great and will really protect your newborn. Check out the pictures below of Abbie with the sign on her stroller: