When Stefanie McAuliffe returned to Westerleigh with a healthy baby boy after a high-risk delivery that could have cost them both their lives, she also brought home a deep appreciation for a particular group of strangers: The blood donors who made her survival possible.

When baby Russell was born, surrounded in the delivery room by a medical team of 26, McAuliffe lost three-and-a-half liters of blood — and needed six units (pints) of blood in order to survive.

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