News Moms Need

Thank you, Farmers, for raising $2.5 million on Be a Hero For Babies Day and to everyone who shared stories of their own heroes! That was such super support!

Thursday June 21st is Farmers Be A Hero For Babies Day when Farmers agents all over the country will reach out in their communities to once again help keep every baby healthy. Who are your heroes for babies?

For more than 25 years, Farmers Insurance has supported the March of Dimes by raising awareness and millions of dollars to protect the health of babies and support families. On June 29, Be a Hero for Babies Day, Farmers agents will reach out in their communities and raise more than $2 Million to support the March of Dimes mission.

This year, Farmers is showing their commitment to communities around the county with a matching gift (up to $25,000!) when you make a donation.

Please join the thousands of Farmers agents and employees this Be A Hero For Babies Day, and help give all babies a fighting chance.

Thanks to everyone for participating.

Hero For Babies!

Today is Be a Hero for Babies Day! Today March of Dimes partner Farmers’ Insurance will challenge agents and employees to raise more than $2 million for healthy babies!

Throughout the week we have been sharing stories of Farmers’ agents who are heroes for babies on Facebook and you have been sharing your own stories and pictures of your heroes.

For more than 20 years, Farmers has supported the March of Dimes by raising awareness and millions of dollars for the sake of infants and their families. Across the country, Farmers customers, family and friends like you, participate as sponsors and volunteers to make sure all babies get a healthy start in life. Today we want to share a story from Heather Gilbert, a District Recruiter for Farmers’ Insurance from Portland, Oregon.

Heather’s twin boys, Daniel and Dominik were born 13 weeks early in 1995 weighing and weighed only 2lbs 2oz. and 2lbs 3oz. In her own words:

“I had been on bed rest for over 5 weeks when my little ones arrived. I was so scared for them. The team of doctors whisked them away before I could even hear their first cry.

That evening I arrived in the NICU. After gowning up and scrubbing in I got to see them in their open isolates. I remember thinking, “oh my goodness I have baby dolls bigger than them.”

It was so hard to see my own boys hooked up to all the machines. After 5 days Dominik was able to breathe with the help of oxygen and I got to hold him for the first time. It was a moment I’ll never forget. At 10 days, I held him for the last time. He had taken a turn for the worse and the staff did all they could to keep him alive until I could reach the hospital. I remember running in and hearing Daniel screaming. Doctors and nurses were huddled around Dominik’s isolate performing CPR on his tiny little body. I yelled at them to stop, picked him up and held him close as he opened his eyes a final time and took his last breath. I took him to a private room where my parents were waiting and we said our goodbyes.

Daniel stayed in the NICU for another 3 months and I was there through every alarm, ultrasound, bottle feeding and diaper change. Then, he came home, on oxygen.
The March of Dimes is important to me because there are so many babies born early or with birth defects. These small babies did not choose this for themselves, nor can they battle for their lives alone. They need support and love from their families and from the doctors and staff that care for them in the NICU. The March of Dimes is there, too, to provide research, education, and community services that help give babies like mine a fighting chance.”

Thank you, Heather for sharing your powerful story – and thank you to all the Farmers’ agents who are heroes for babies. For more information on Be a Hero for Babies Day or to make a donation, please visit marchofdimes.com/farmers.