That statistic could still be, if not for one woman s determination, perseverance and faith.
Andrea Hayes journey started when she was just a baby. My mother tells me when I was just 2 or 3 years old that I said I wanted to be a baby doctor, Hayes said smiling. I think God puts it in you and that s what I was supposed to do.
There were many times, however, Hayes wondered if that dream would ever come true.
From Dartmouth College Medical School, Hayes did her residency at the University of California Davis, while at the same time doing a two-year fellowship in molecular biology at the University of California San Francisco.