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We play this tournament every year for the babies, hoping to raise funds for research and for hope for their families. We will be there again this year! We hope you will too.
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Meet Henri, our 2023 spotlight baby, then and now. Read his story, told by his father.
We will soon have stories for our 2024 spotlight babies. Please check back.
We will soon have stories for our 2024 spotlight babies. Please check back.
There are few days in life where you can measure true happiness. There are plenty of trivial topics that can make any day good but few that hold as much meaning as a pivotal change in life. Like the day you hear your wife yell from the other room that you now have a child on the way. It pales in comparison to the day that new life enters your world albeit 8 weeks early. In February, 2023 that day came for my wife, Autumn, and me.
It was a mad dash on that cold February morning. It was a blur of information, doctors, and nurses tending to my wife. By 1 in the afternoon, we were certain that we had a baby on the way. We had already been prepped by the neonatal unit with a game plan. The time finally came around 3:40 pm when it was time to push. After a short nine minutes, which felt like a lifetime, our son, Henri William entered the world. I followed the NICU nurses with our new son to where he would begin his journey in life over the course of the next 18 days. The nurses must have read the panic on my face and before I could get the question out, they assured me that he was going to be okay and that they do this every day.
Over the course of those 18 days, we would become familiar with all of the folks who took care of Henri. The doctors and nurses of the St. Francis NICU were nothing short of amazing. Every question asked was answered with patience, professionalism, and kindness.
There is so much more that I want to say but I will end it with the fact that our little guy came out the other side happy, healthy, and growing like a weed. We are forever grateful to everyone at the St. Francis NICU. Autumn and I are honored and grateful for being able to be a part of this golf tournament and can’t thank March of Dimes enough for the work that they do. You never expect to be a member of this club but it is one we are proud to be a part of.
It was a mad dash on that cold February morning. It was a blur of information, doctors, and nurses tending to my wife. By 1 in the afternoon, we were certain that we had a baby on the way. We had already been prepped by the neonatal unit with a game plan. The time finally came around 3:40 pm when it was time to push. After a short nine minutes, which felt like a lifetime, our son, Henri William entered the world. I followed the NICU nurses with our new son to where he would begin his journey in life over the course of the next 18 days. The nurses must have read the panic on my face and before I could get the question out, they assured me that he was going to be okay and that they do this every day.
Over the course of those 18 days, we would become familiar with all of the folks who took care of Henri. The doctors and nurses of the St. Francis NICU were nothing short of amazing. Every question asked was answered with patience, professionalism, and kindness.
There is so much more that I want to say but I will end it with the fact that our little guy came out the other side happy, healthy, and growing like a weed. We are forever grateful to everyone at the St. Francis NICU. Autumn and I are honored and grateful for being able to be a part of this golf tournament and can’t thank March of Dimes enough for the work that they do. You never expect to be a member of this club but it is one we are proud to be a part of.
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Sponsor and Auction Donor Opportunities
Please sponsor or donate now!
We thank you and appreciate your support.
We hope that you will consider helping us find answers by becoming a sponsor or a donor of auction items for the 13th annual March of Dimes Play It Forward Golf Tournament. Please help us fund the fight. Sponsor and donor forms are available by clicking on the buttons below.