

Ariel Tackett, who is 29 weeks pregnant, listens and rubs her belly during a Moms2B meeting a Mount Carmel West Hospital. The group was created to provide support to moms in areas that are experiencing high infant mortality rates. Pregnant women and new mothers are given a community through the group, one that is able to provide information and check-ins during and after pregnancy.

Anne Marie Phitayakorn, 31, holds her son Miles Phitayakorn while her husband Ron Phitayakorn carefully watch the monitor in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Miles was born at 25 weeks gestation, he died 159 days later after multiple surgeries to keep him alive.



Jennifer Iduozee, 30, breaks into tears while discussing the death of her daughter Princess to extreme prematurity in her home in Columbus, Ohio. Iduozee and her boyfriend Kirk Thomas, 50, were able to spend a month with their daughter before she passed.






