LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Around 35,000 babies are born in Arkansas each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those births, approximately 3,000 to 5,000 go to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, each year.
One of them is 10-month-old Eason. He was born premature and has spent his entire life at the hospital. It’s an unexpected reality his parents never saw coming, but want other families to be prepared for.
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When Lauren Clay told her husband Parker the news of her pregnancy, it was pure shock.
“I didn’t believe it, not even kind of,” Parker said…