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A Bay Ridge man who takes part every year in the March for Babies event sponsored by the March of Dimes is expanding his mission.
John Quaglione, deputy chief of staff to state Sen. Marty Golden, is the co-chairman of the newly formed Brooklyn Chapter of the March of Dimes New York. Quaglione and his wife Kerry participate in the annual March for Babies walk-a-thon in Manhattan to help raise money for the March of Dimes, the nationwide organization founded in 1938 to help premature babies and infants with birth defects. At this year’s march, the couple and their friends raised nearly $5,000.
The Quagliones call their walk-a-thon group “Team Natalie” after their older daughter, Natalie Grace, who is four years old now. Natalie was two months premature when she was born in 2011. The couple has a second daughter, Olivia, who is five months old.
Back in 2011, John and Kerry Quaglione had to visit Natalie Grace in the neonatal intensive care unit at New York Methodist Hospital, where the baby was kept in an incubator, attached to a spider web of tubes. The loving care that Natalie Grace received at the hospital, along with the emotional support they were given by the hospital’s staff, is something the couple will always remember, John Quaglione said. The Quagliones decided to give back by raising money for the March of Dimes.