Pediatric/Neonatal
ICU's in need
So
many hospitals are in need of homemade warm items for their new and
premature
or ill babies. If you know of such a hospital, please
obtain
their permission first
and find out specific details on who to mail items to, and what is
needed.
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patterns
To
add your
pediatric charity, organization, ward or NICU
please
email BEVQ with
the following information:
* Organization name,
contact person's
email address, mailing address, website, Facebook page, what handmade
items are
needed, sizes, special information like only use 100% wool, NO wool,
only certain colors etc. |
If
you wish to find places to donate your tiny baby hats, burial gowns and
such, this is the page to look. I try to keep these listings
as
up to date as I can. Please email or write to
the people
listed
for current status and needs.
Bev's
FREE PATTERNS
you can use to help these places!
♥
Updated NOTE October 2017 ♥
1)
I have removed any listings that were posted prior to 2014.
If yours is missing and you still want donations please email
me your information including a contact persons name and email.
2) Remember many places listed below do
not have the financial means, or
the personel to respond back to let you know that packages are received
and appreciated. Please make sure there is a 'tracking
number' on
your packages if you want to know that items were received.
And
as a former preemie mom, I can tell you that your little handmade items
like hats etc, ARE not only appreciated, but they bring great hope to
parents who are suffering!
preemie
and newborn sized hats,
booties,
blankets,
burial
pouches and gowns
CARE WEAR - more hospitals to donate
your
handmade items
California
(updated Octl 2017)
UCSD
Medical Center
200
west Arbor Dr. San Diego CA 92103
We
are in great need of hats and booties for premature babies.
Goodies
from the Heart that Help Comfort and Heal
Handmade
gifts for our patients encourage and facilitate their recovery. Gifts
are given to patients when appropriate and convey the community
interest in their well being. The gifts are distributed by volunteers
and are appreciated by our patients.
- Lap
robes or afghans:
Patients
enjoy having a coverlet to use during their hospital stay. Crocheted,
knitted or quilted lap robes and afghans will be distributed to our
inpatients.
- Booties:infants
in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit need booties to keep their little
feet warm. Crocheted or knitted booties made from baby yarn should be
fitted for a medium-sized doll.
- Hats
for cancer patients
- Cards: All
our patients enjoy receiving mail. Handmade cards can help to brighten
their day and let them know their community is thinking of them.
Because
of the various prognoses, we discourage the use of "Get Well Soon" as a
message. Alternate messages could include, "Thinking of
You," poems, scripture or limericks.
- Pillows: Heart-shaped
pillows will be given to our cardiology patients who have undergone
heart surgery.
- Homemade
Teddy Bears: A
soft handmade teddy can provide support and remembrance during a
difficult time. Made of plain muslin and shaped like a bear, a child
can draw on the teddy or have their visitors sign their names, some
even have the nurses and doctors write messages for them. The teddy
bear helps with the healing process.
Please
call 619-543-6370 if you have any questions or would like to schedule a
pick up of any large donations.
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Florida
Updated Dec 2019
Mended Little Hearts
Contact
person
name and email mendedlittleheartsstpete@yahoo.com
Mailing
address 5153 4th St Zephyrhills FL 33542
Specific
request items needed. We would love any items for babies and children.
Knitted socks, blankets, hats, toys. Anything a baby or child could use
while in hospital for heart surgery.
FACEBOOK PAGE is: Mended
Little Hearts
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Georgia
(Added March 2014) Contact:
Mandy Lanier- child life specialist
Email: alanier@ppmh.org
Mailing address:
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
417 Third Avenue
Mandy Lanier-2c
Albany, GA 31706
Items needed: burial gowns- all
sizes
Hospital name: Phoebe Putney
Memorial Hospital
Website: http://www.phoebeputney.com
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Illinois
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Indiana
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Kentucky
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Louisiana
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Maine
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Minnesota
added
April 2015
Shriners
Children's Hopsital
Attn:
Theresa
2025
E. River Parkway
Minneapolis,
MN 55414
Always in need of afghan blankets, tied blankets, hats, mittens (for
winter), and slippers.
Nevada
contacted May 2018
The Lullaby
Connection
769
Middlegate,
Henderson NV 89011
www.lullabyconnection.org
Helping
newborns (and others) in Clark
Country, Nevada.
Lullaby
Connection is a 501 c3
group of
loving people who want to make sure that the 100s of newborns born in
Vegas each year, have a basic layette, blanket etc to go home
with.
Leader Darla
Hayden also
makes sure that the little ones who do not
survive,
have a burial gown, to help comfort their grieving parents.
If
you can help, please make either preemie
or newborn sized
outfits,
especially hats and
blankets,
and send them to address above.
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New Jersey
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New York State
Bellas
Babies (Added Jan 2014)
All
the info you need is on the website. I collect baby and preemie items
for Southside Hospital in Bayshore NY on Long Island. I take them
deliveries 4 times a year. They can use blankets, hats, sweaters,
burial gowns and booties. People can email me for info at bellabambinaknits@gmail.com
Bella's
Babies
c/o
Kelly Kearney
48
Cedar Dr.
Farmingdale
NY 1173
My phone # is 516-643-8311.
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Contact
- Linda Loeb
(added May 2015)
Jacobi Medical Center
1400 Pelham Parkway South
Building 4,
Room 7N5
Bronx, NY 10461
(718)918-4203
Linda.Loeb@nbhn.net
We are in need of newborn caps in all sizes. We are also in need of
bereavement gowns and pouches in all sizes.
added
May 2015
Tiffanie Herne (Kaitlins Angels)
324
Orchard Street
Vestal, NY 13850
My
e-mail: mblankets@gmail.com
Items
needed:
everything for 18 weeks preemie -all the way to newborn. Hats, booties,
blankets, outfits, teddy bears, etc. Items don't have to come as
matching sets I will mix and match to make complete boxes. Items can be
knit crochet, sewn or bought, all are welcomed :) I donate to 3
hospitals currently and am looking to add two more so the demand is
growing.
I
primarily run
on Facebook for Kaitlin's Angels:
http://www.facebook.com/KaitlinsAngels
But
I also am
working on a blog for it as well:
http://kaitlinsangels.blogspot.com/
(Added
October 2017)
"Bronx
Lebanon Hospital Center
Attn: Natasha Houston Rm 8H
1650
Selwyn Ave.
Bronx,
NY 10457, USA
Phone:
917-653-5885
Needs:
Hats, booties (all sizes), P mittens, small bears, bibs, finger
puppets, blankets, quilts, incubator covers (36x36), clothing for
boarder babies to 3 years, books for 1-5 yrs.
Contact Natasha Houston"
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Malawi
- US Chapter- Facebook
page
Bangwe
Babies is a international and interdenominational group. The
United States chapter is located in Malone, New York.
"Bangwe
Township is one of the beautiful town since is surrounded by Hills and
rivers unfortunately the population is very high.
We have experienced of poverty and lack of proper equipment at our
hospital (Bangwe Healthy Centre).
The woman are finding it difficult especially when giving
birth
since there's lack of proper equipment and mostly they lose their lives.
Therefore
through Babies Bangwe Mission am 100% sure that will make
difference." Pof Zinja Thopus,
founder
Baby
Clothes and blankets are desperately needed for the maternity
ward! The hospital is quite poor, equipment and bare
necessities
are hard to come by and according to UNICEF 44 of every 1000 live
births result in death. https://data.unicef.org/country/mwi/
Needs include the following for micro-preemie to 10 pound baby:
Materials ONLY acrylic, polyester, nylon easy care unless otherwise
noted.
Hats (and a lot of them) from micro preemie
Socks/booties
thumbless mitts
warming vests (micro-preemie/preemie)
Blankets sized average 22x20" or 22x28" thereby allowing us to ship
more.
Cardigans or pullover sweaters.
100% cotton washcloths
Donations
can be sent to
Bangwe
Babies
care
of Tom Wilson
P.O.
Box 465
Malone,
NY 12953
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New Mexico
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Pennsylvania
Updated May 2015
Online
Angels
need your
help with the following: any
color,
any
design 6-inch
crochet/knit squares, items for
preemies,
laprobes, wheelchair
caddies, afghans,
slippers
for adults, health & beauty items, children's books,
toys,
stuffed
toys, stationary, pens, pencils, crosses, angels, bookmarks, aluminum
soda
tabs, canceled stamps, used card fronts, yarn, shoes, and clothes for
the
shelters.
Please send any
donations
to me at:
Mary
Reinhart
36
Pine Drive
Pottsville,
PA 17901
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Tennesee
(added March 2016)
Centennial Medical Center
Neonatal
ICU c/o Jodie Heimbach (NICU Manager)
2300
Patterson Street
Nashville,
TN 37203
We
need bereavement gowns ranging from micro preemie to newborn sizes.
From
the memory boxes to the gowns we would be SO appreciative and thankful.
We have around 60-70 deaths a year and are unable as a staff to sew
fast enough to keep up with all of the needs for our families. Even any
donations would make a huge difference.
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Texas
Aubreys
Angels
TEXAS-San Antonio
Contact person: Lynn
Zuniga
Aubrey’s Angels is a non
profit, charitable ministry, in San Antonio built of love, to help meet
the very special needs of precious sick babies and parents who are in
need of a smile.We want each family to know, without a doubt, that
there are people who love their tiny angels, are
praying for
them, and want to help by crocheting, sewing, knitting, and quilting
hats, booties, afghans, mitts, angel layettes (burial layettes), memory
boxes, diaper shirts, etc. working from home. We also make afghans, lap
blankets, and chemo caps for chemo and dialysis patients in San
Antonio. You dont have to live close to participate!
We also make parent bags for moms and dads who spend an enormous amount
of time in the hospital waiting room.
We
are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by
embracing one another. ~Luciano de CrescenzoAubreys
Angels:
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Blue
Bonnet Babies
Lyn
McNeely
(angels4lyn@yahoo.com)
PO
Box 34883
San
Antonio Texas 78265
group
is :
Bluebonnet Babies of San Antonio (charity group)
web
addy: http://www.angelcrafts.net/bluebonnetbabies/
on
site
has info of who we deliver to at this time, but we're always being
asked by others to help out.
We
need
preemie and newborn size items, blankets, sheets, caps, booties, going
home outfits, toys, and diaper
bag
items.
We do bears, dolls and toys for the police dept, and then we do cage
blankies, dog beds, and toys for the animal shelters.
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Utah
contacted
May 2015
Uintah Basin Medical Center
Volunteer
Coordinator
Roosevelt, UT 84066
Needs:
Baby
blankets.
They have a
person who does burial gowns for
stillborns, so their basic need is blankets (approx 32" square to 36"
square). She said that they are in
constant need of blankets for babies who come earlier than expected, or
come from families who simply have nothing in which to wrap the
baby.
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Virginia
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Washington
DC
( Added April 2015)
Courtney Arsenault
Certified
Child Life Specialist
Carsenault@hospsc.org
HSC
Pediatric Center
1731 Bunker Hill Rd NE
Washington DC 20017
http://www.hscpediatriccenter.org/
("We
have three units one of which is an infant floor with many babies
coming to us from the NICU. Our biggest need is for hats, we use hats
for when children go to clinic apts, discharge to home, as gifts for
families having a hard time, and when a child passes away. ") Hats,
baby blankets, booties, no color preference.
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West
Virginia
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Wisconsin
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UNKNOWN STATE or National
Feb 2012 (Updated Aug 2014)
'Project Sweet Peas' is a national 501c3 non-profit organization coordinated by volunteers, who through personal experience have become passionate about providing support to families with infants in intensive care and to those who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss.
www.projectsweetpeas.com
We are always in need of donations such as blankets, booties, hats, burial gowns, sleep sacks and isolette covers.
Anyone interested in donation can visit our division page to find a project close to them:
http://projectsweetpeas.com/LocalProjects.aspx
Kate Crawford
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FOREIGN
England
added
July 2013: "Our charity is called Angel Knitters. we are a
2 woman
strong team based in the UK. We have people donate to us everyday but
it just isn't enough. We supply 10 Neonatal units and special baby care
units in the Uk with hats,cardigans, waistcoats and blankets as well as
bereavement items such as moseys baskets, burial gowns and angel wraps.
we are always in need of the items listed we just ask that NO BUTTONS
OR TIES are used and that the size of items are to be no bigger in size
than for a baby of 6lbs"
Charlii
Hornby and Tina Burton
Angel
Knitters
19
mead view
Holmewood
Bradford
West
Yorkshire
UK
BD4
9DS
angelknitters@hotmail.co.uk
www.facebook.com/angelknitters
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Malawi
- US Chapter- Facebook
page
Bangwe
Babies is a international and interdenominational group. The
United States chapter is located in Malone, New York.
"Bangwe
Township is one of the beautiful town since is surrounded by Hills and
rivers unfortunately the population is very high.
We have experienced of poverty and lack of proper equipment at our
hospital (Bangwe Healthy Centre).
The woman are finding it difficult especially when giving
birth
since there's lack of proper equipment and mostly they lose their lives.
Therefore
through Babies Bangwe Mission am 100% sure that will make
difference." Pof Zinja Thopus,
founder
Baby
Clothes and blankets are desperately needed for the maternity
ward! The hospital is quite poor, equipment and bare
necessities
are hard to come by and according to UNICEF 44 of every 1000 live
births result in death. https://data.unicef.org/country/mwi/
Needs include the following for micro-preemie to 10 pound baby:
Materials ONLY acrylic, polyester, nylon easy care unless otherwise
noted.
Hats (and a lot of them) from micro preemie
Socks/booties
thumbless mitts
warming vests (micro-preemie/preemie)
Blankets sized average 22x20" or 22x28" thereby allowing us to ship
more.
Cardigans or pullover sweaters.
100% cotton washcloths
Donations
can be sent to
Bangwe
Babies
care
of Tom Wilson
P.O.
Box 465
Malone,
NY 12953
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