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It s amazing how much is the cost of care for the first year a healthy newborn. It coast about 5 grand. Now you compare it to the cost of care for a LBW newborn and it's 10 times more for its first year of life. The cost is 50 grand It's no wonder that most families of a LBW newborn are in constant fianancial stress. Then they still have to deal with the stress of taking care of a baby with a fragile

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