This post was originally produced for Forbes.
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Kelli Kelley is a reluctant social entrepreneur.
She was 24 weeks pregnant–16 weeks before her due date–when a sharp pain in her abdomen signaled something was wrong. She called her mother and mother-in-law for guidance and they told her to call 911.
It was a good thing she did. In the ambulance, they confirmed she was in labor and that they wouldn’t be able to stop it. At the time, 24 weeks was the medical limit for delivering a baby that could survive.
She says that limit has now edged a week or two lower in the 16 years since her son Jackson was born.
He is now a healthy 16-year-old boy, who is thriving in school, learning to drive and wanting to date. But it wasn’t always easy.
“There were lots of setbacks,” she says. “We thought we might lose him.”
Not even three years later, Kelley found herself with a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) once again. Her daughter was …