Run Time: 6:05
Description: Lauren was born 3½ months early weighing only 2 pounds, 1 ounce. Her father, Densel, had been a March of Dimes volunteer for 16 years. Yet, he and his wife Nikki never could have imagined what it would be like to have a baby in newborn intensive care for 5 months.Lauren was treated for respiratory distress and underwent multiple surgeries related to a damaged vocal cord and a heart defect. Doctors prepared the Flemings for the worst, Densel says, but "Lauren did everything doctors said she wouldn't be able to do — like cry and breathe on her own. I knew she was saying to me, if I'm willing to fight, then, Daddy, you better be man enough to fight as well.
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