Carrie Higgins and her husband created the Team Abby Foundation, named after their daughter.
Abby's umbilical cord burst during delivery, and her life was hanging in the balance for weeks.
"She had seizures, and kidney damage, that's what almost took her from us," Carrie says.
"She was not expected to survive, and if she was going to survive, we were given small odds as to the type of life she would have," remembers Carrie.
Abby rebounded, and is now a healthy little girl.
Team Abby gives "care bags" to other parents in Jefferson's neonatal intensive care to try to brighten their difficult time.
Among the goodies inside are a colorful baby blanket, a stuffed toy, and a book. Carrie says books can create a special connection for parents of NICU babies.
"You spend hours and hours and hours sitting next to your child, and sometimes, you can't hold your child, and you can't touch your child - he's in an incubator, so what do you do? so we have a book so that parents can read that with their child," she says
More than a hundred bags have gone out. They were assembled with donations - many of those donations from other families who've had babies in the NICU.
Donations are always welcome, says Carrie. Just contact the foundation through the Team Abby website.
