ABC7 Parents Host Blood Drive as Their Infant Recovers Skip to main content Close Select your preferred language English عربى 简体中文 繁體中文 فارسي עִברִית 日本語 한국어 Русский Español Tagalog Menu Close Call 1-800-CEDARS-1 toggle search form Close Los Angeles, 07 March 2020 08:22 AM America/Los_Angeles ABC7 Parents Host Blood Drive as Their Infant Recovers Jeffrey and Rui Dolen are hosting a baby shower/blood donation drive in honor of their premature infant, Tasha. Photo courtesy of the Dolen family. ABC7 recently featured the journey of parents Rui and Jeffery Dolen, who recently hosted a baby shower for their premature infant that featured a Cedars-Sinai mobile blood donation unit. The Dolen's baby, Tasha, was born Jan. 2, 2020 – more than two-and-a-half months early. She weighed barely over 2 pounds and needed surgery and several blood transfusions. Both parents have since donated blood to help their baby and others like her, but hadn't realized the significance of donating until recently. In fact, Jeffrey Dolen told ABC7 that when he went to donate blood to help his baby, he realized he had never donated before. "It was a pretty traumatic first week or two," Dolen told ABC7. "The baby needed a transfusion on day seven of her life and that made me aware of the importance of blood donation. Now we want to give back to the blood bank and help others in need." Because Tasha arrived well ahead of her mid-March due date and the parents' planned baby-shower, the Dolens combined the two events and invited the public to join their friends and family at the shower/blood drive. Both Rui and Jeffery hope their idea will catch on – especially with parents of other preemies. At Cedars-Sinai, patients use more than 60,000 blood products every year and one single blood donation can help save the lives of two people. Through the medical center's Blood Donor Services program, individuals or groups can host blood drives like the Dolen family did. Click here to watch the complete clip from ABC7 and click here to learn more about donating blood. Read more on the Cedars-Sinai Blog: What You Should Know About Preeclampsia Related Stories RSS feed - Related Stories (opens in new window) View all headlines - Related Stories Daya s Mystery What Was Causing a Young Girl s Internal Bleeding September 02, 2022 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles The Dhillon family seemed to be living the California dream, enjoying the waterway just steps from their home on Naples Island. But a little more than five years ago, when their daughter, Daya, began feeling ill, the Dhillon family’s California … Read more Q&A Advice for a Healthy Stress-Free Return to School August 18, 2022 06:01 AM America/Los_Angeles For the past two-plus years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted children’s education and frustrated parents. Today, with the back-to-school season in full swing, Suzanne Silverstein, MA, ART, founding director of Cedars-Sinai Share & Care, and Rose … Read more Hyperactivation of the Immune System May Cause Post-COVID Syndromes July 07, 2022 09:00 AM America/Los_Angeles Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have proposed a theory for how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects the body. Their hypothesis, published in Frontiers in Immunology, could explain why some people still have symptoms long after the … Read more Show previous items Show next items Contact the Media Team Email: [email protected] Contact Soshea Leibler Soshea.Leibler@cshs.org Share this release ABC7 Parents Host Blood Drive as Their Infant Recovers Share on: Twitter Share on: Facebook Share on: LinkedIn Search Our Newsroom Social media Visit our Facebook page (opens in new window) Follow us on Twitter (opens in new window) Visit our Youtube profile (opens in new window) (opens in new window) Latest news 07 Oct 2022 - HealthDay: Black Women Less Likely to Get Laparoscopic Fibroid Surgeries 07 Oct 2022 - Faculty Publications: Sept. 29-Oct. 6 07 Oct 2022 - Fine-Tuning Organ-Chip Technology 06 Oct 2022 - KCRW: Want New Omicron Booster? Wait at Least 2 Months After Last Shot 05 Oct 2022 - Cedars-Sinai Schedules Free Flu Vaccine Clinics 04 Oct 2022 - Cedars-Sinai Showcases Hispanic and Latinx Art Newsroom Home