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Annual event reunites families of premature babies with medical center staff
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Glenna Bray gives daughter Alaina, 7 months, a kiss Saturday at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s neonatal unit reunion at Laurel Park. Alaina was in NICU for two months with breathing trouble. “You couldn’t even tell now,” said her mother, Glenna Bray of Banks County. - photo by NAT GURLEY
In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, mutual concern for the newborn babies under their care fosters a bond between doctors, nurses and parents. But Saturday afternoon at Laurel Park, those families and nurses were all smiles and laughter as they had the opportunity to talk and catch up in a more carefree setting, outside the hospital. “It’s really good to see them; it’s like seeing family,” Kerry Phagan said as she held one of her 8-month-old twins.