Weymouth Mom Joins Fight to Change Preventative Care for Premature Babies

A Weymouth mother has joined citizens across the country to improve preventative care for premature babies.

Amy Farrell, a mother of twins that were born prematurely, is working with other moms to protect preemies from common diseases that due to their fragile state can become deadly.

In an effort to fight the “changing professional medical guidelines and policies based on cost and other factors without benefit of scientific evidence are undercutting efforts to prevent illness, or even death, from breast cancer, Lyme disease, urinary tract infections and other diseases,” moms like Farrell have united with a petition drive that will help better protect premature babies.

According to a press release about the petition, the purpose is to ask "the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to reconsider guidelines written in 2009 that limit the number of premature infants considered for a preventive medication for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a common, seasonal virus.”

Without preventative care in the first year of life, premature babies are at high risk, in many cases for cost reasons.

Farrell has first hand experience with RSV as both of her twins battled the virus.

Click here to sign the petition and learn more about the efforts to increase preventative care for premature infants.