Ending Premature Births is Focus of March for Babies

Ending premature births and helping babies who are born earlier than expected will take center stage in town on April 28. The annual Passaic County March for Babies will be held that day.

Hundreds of participants walk the four miles in the annual event that’s sponsored by the March of Dimes. It is the 75th year the walk is being held.

The walk begins at Wayne Hills High School and winds through the nearby neighborhood.

Bob and Zachary Stein have participated in the event for the past 15 years.  Zack, who is 18, was born five-and-a-half weeks premature. He spent his earliest days receiving treatment in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit developed from March of Dimes research.

“If the March of Dimes wasn’t doing research for the technology that was used in that ICU, I don’t know what would have happened to him,” Zack’s father Bob said. “That technology helped regulate his body temperature.”

The walk begins at 9 a.m., registration begins at 8 a.m.

For more information call 973-882-0700. To register, click here.

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