Clark Hudson, 11, earned his parents' nickname for him, "superboy," with his seemingly super-human abilities like those of Clark Kent, aka Superman. The family will be among about 45,000 participants, said Ellen Efsic, Houston's March of Dimes executive director, making Houston's March for Babies the largest in the country. "(Houston) has a very strong medical community that's aware of what March of Dimes does," she said. Efsic said much of the money raised at the March for Babies goes toward research, with $5 million at the Texas Medical Center in Houston to research issues such as autism and cleft palates. More than 50 percent of women in Texas do not receive prenatal care in the first trimester. Veronika Romeis, Texas Children's Hospital public relations specialist, said March of Dimes gives millions each year to Texas Children's Hospital to research premature and critically ill babies. Doctors used medicine to help stop the labor, but Hudson could leave her bed only to use the bathroom because movement could spark preterm labor. Hudson, who is now Texas Children's Hospital's assistant director of internal and corporate communications, said that while in the hospital Clark received life-saving treatment developed through research funded by the March of Dimes.
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