Lori Martin was an American

United States

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 actress, born as Dawn Catherine Menzer.
Lori Martin was born at 10:02 a.m.; her fraternal twin sister, Doree, arrived four minutes later. As Martin weighed only 5 pounds and measured just 18 inches at birth, she spent the first few weeks of her life in an incubator

Neonatal intensive care unit

A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit —also called a Special Care Nursery, newborn intensive care unit, intensive care nursery , and special care baby unit —is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants.The problem of premature and congenitally ill infants is not a...

, during which time her survival was somewhat doubtful. Her father was Russell C. Menzer (1916–1999), an M-G-M and Warner Brothers commercial artist and art director.