Ellery's Entourage

05/03/2023

🌟 We are walking this Saturday! 🌟
We're excited to celebrate Ellery and give hope to others.
We walk to help give all babies a healthy start in the March for Babies, the March of Dimes' largest fundraiser! The March of Dimes provides grants for research and development of new therapies, provides support to families with a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit, and educates moms-to-be on healthy pregnancies. March of Dimes has also pioneered therapies like the polio vaccine, surfactant, nitric oxide and folic acid. And did you know, the APGAR score given to assess the health of newborn babies was developed by Dr. Virginia Apgar, who was instrumental in guiding the work of March of Dimes to birth defects and premature birth? She also lobbied for the use of Rh immune globulin (RhoGAM) in pregnant women to prevent hemolytic disease of a newborn baby due to Rh incompatibility - something I received during my three pregnancies. We're all impacted by the breakthrough work of the March of Dimes!
We would be honored to have your support for our walk and the March of Dimes to continue the mission of preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. Our team has currently raised $2030, but we're hoping to reach $3000 before the walk on Saturday. Thank you for considering! https://www.marchforbabies.org/ellerysmom
To give to Ellery's fundraising link: https://www.marchforbabies.org/ellerycase

I'm Ellery, and I walk for babies born sick, just like I was. I've been 'walking' since I was 6 months old when I strolled in my first March for Babies. This event is important to me as my family recoginizes my own battle to surive birth defects and premature birth, but also to inspire others and gi...

04/23/2022

04/23/2022

Ellery is just $22.60 from meeting her $250 goal, and we walk in the morning! Who wants to help babies be born healthy AND help our girl meet her goal!? 💜
Sign up to walk with us, or give to Ellery at

Every day, thousands of babies are born too soon, too small and often very sick. I was one of those babies. Please support my walk with my family and friends, as together, we are Ellery's Entourage! We walk so no one else has to endure what I have. I wasn't expected to survive, but I am here today b...

04/20/2022

Saturday, Saturday, Saaaturday 🎼 - sing it with us now! And join us on Saturday for our walk for healthier, stronger babies! There's still time to walk with us - it's free! We're fun, I promise. Also, there's a Starbucks in the rotunda where the walk kicks off. Get your walk on for babies, feel great giving back and grab a coffee while hanging with us. C'mon. You know you want to! Do it. It's for the babies. 😉
Busy that day? Ok, we'll let it slide. Got an extra $5? Ellery is just $22.60 from meeting her $250 goal. Who wants to help babies be born healthy AND help our girl meet her goal!?

Sign up to walk with us, or give to Ellery at

Every day, thousands of babies are born too soon, too small and often very sick. I was one of those babies. Please support my walk with my family and friends, as together, we are Ellery's Entourage! We walk so no one else has to endure what I have. I wasn't expected to survive, but I am here today b...

04/14/2022

We are walking in the March of Dimes' March for Babies walk in 10 days! Join us on Saturday, April 23rd at the Mall of America! Ellery's Entourage will walk with hundreds of other families touched by birth defects, premature birth and loss. We walk to help babies have a healthy start as March of Dimes funds research and development into new life-saving therapies and treatments, educates moms-to-be, and helps support families with a baby in the NICU.

Ellery IS a March of Dimes Baby! She (and all of us) directly benefited from their funding for therapies. Suffering from pulmonary hypertension, fetal hydrops and congenital chylothorax, Ellery's life was saved with nitric oxide - a therapy to treat pulmonary hypertension. March of Dimes funded the grant to research and develop nitric oxide in 1996, just 12 years before Ellery was born. Isn't that amazing!? Think of all the possibilities for future life-saving advancements!

To join Ellery in her walk, or to give to her walk, please visit https://www.marchforbabies.org/ellerycase
Every dime is appreciated! 76 cents of every dollar goes to help babies get a healthy start! 💜

05/14/2021

Tomorrow is our walk to help babies get a healthy start! And we’ve reached, and exceeded our $3,000 goal, thanks to YOU!! Thank you to those who have supported our walk!

If you still want to give, there’s still time! Click our safe and secure team page, then scroll down to give to a team member/walker! We’re honored to have your support to help prevent birth defects and premature birth!

https://www.MarchforBabies.org/team/ellerysentourage

05/08/2021

We’re $501 away from reaching our $3,000 goal! 7 days to go, we can do it!

https://www.MarchforBabies.org/team/ellerysentourage

05/02/2021

Marching for Babies in just 13 days, and we're $37.25 from reaching a milestone amount of $2,500! If you'd like to help babies have a healthy start, please consider giving to our team, or a walker on our team (scroll to the bottom to give to a team member) at http://www.marchforbabies.org/team/ellerysentourage
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We're excited to participate in our 13th March for Babies! Our family was honored to represent the March of Dimes as the St. Paul Ambassador Family in 2010! Thanks to your support, we were the top family team in Minnesota in 2010 and 2011 and have raised over $121,000 in the last 12 years! We're alw...

04/11/2021

💜 Our walk signs are ordered! 💜

04/08/2021

We are up and running for the 2021 March for Babies walk! Join us for the virtual walk on May 15th! Together, we can make a big difference in the littlest lives! 👶🏽👶🏿👶🏻

We're excited to participate in our 13th March for Babies! Our family was honored to represent the March of Dimes as the St. Paul Ambassador Family in 2010! Thanks to your support, we were the top family team in Minnesota in 2010 and 2011 and have raised over $121,000 in the last 12 years! We're alw...

05/15/2020

It is WALK DAY!! We're excited to walk in our own neighborhood at 4pm today with the March of Dimes Minnesota leader, Angie Deegan!! Cheer us on, join us (as a distance) as we'll be tossing purple bead necklaces and walking for all babies to have a healthy start!

We've raised $3,368 this year! Go Team!

We're excited to participate in our 12th March for Babies! Our family was honored to represent the March of Dimes as the St. Paul Ambassador Family in 2010! Thanks to your support, we were the top family team in Minnesota in 2010 and 2011 and have raised over $117,000 in the last 11 years! We're alw...