These are the stories of babies born too soon. They're about love and sorrow, triumph and resignation, medical miracles and social failures. And together they reveal the bigger story -- the baffling, relentless increase in premature births, and the price we all pay.
These are the stories of babies born too soon. They're about love and sorrow, triumph and resignation, medical miracles
and social failures. And together they reveal the bigger story – the baffling, relentless increase
in premature births, and the price we all pay.

By Felice J. Freyer, Providence Journal medical writer • Photographs by Kathy Borchers, Journal photographer

© The Providence Journal, September 2009