PEDIATRIC/NEONATAL
ICUs 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 contact Bev
and let me know of their details as I would be happy to add them to
this
page so more people can help them. Please obtain their permission first
and find out specific details on who to mail items to, and what is
needed.
Thanks!
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!
CARE WEAR- more hospitals to donate your
handmade items
Atlantic
City
medical Center-City Div.
Linda
Noranbrock RN Acting Clinical
Manager-NICU Atlanticare
Medical Center-Pomona Campus. 1925
Pacific
Ave. Atlantic
City, NJ 08401 (609) 404-3820
"I
just gave birth to a 24-week micro-preemie at Atlantic City Medical
Center in NJ. During my visits to see my dear son, I learned that the
NICU was in need of baby hats(all
sizes), booties, & blankets.
So, this lead me to put my beginning crochet skills to work. I made a
few hats, thanks to your website, however I would like for the hospital
to be bless with the other items they need. I would really appreciate
it, if you would put the hospital information on your site. I could be contacted as well via email,
since I recently moved in, to spend as much time with my son as I can.
Thank you so much."
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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.
Help make a difference in the lives of patients and families at Arkansas Children's Hospital! Knit or crochet hats for children of all ages through our Knitting for Noggins program. How can you make a difference? There are many ways to participate: • Participate in our Knitting for Noggins program! • Deliver your hats in time for our Knitting for Noggins Celebration on November 27! We hope to celebrate reaching our goal of 10,000 hats for the patients of Arkansas Children\'s Hospital! Please mail or deliver your hats to Arkansas Children\'s Hospital.
Arkansas Children's Hospital Volunteer Services 800 Marshall Street, Slot 108 Little Rock, AR 72202 www.archildrens.org/volunteer volunteerservices@archildrens.org (501) 364-1825
also could
you add St luke Hospital
- They are in need of baby hats,booties
and chemo caps Las Vegas Columbia
Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center
NICU-Nurse
Manager 3186
Maryland Parkway Las
Vegas,NV 89109 702-731-8240
Preemie and FT hats,
booties,
preemie burial gowns, blankets, Incubator coverlets (call Donna for a
pattern
for the coverlet)
University Medical Center, Volunteer Services Suzanne
Fein 1800 W.
Charleston Blvd. Las
Vegas, NV 89102 702-383-2388 Needs: P/FT hats, booties, burial gowns (mostly
preemie), blankets/quilts, bears/toys, finger puppets, flannel
receiving blankets, onesies, diaper shirts, & blankets (twin size)
for cancer patients. Call Suzanne Fain-fax 702-383-2071
Dixie
Regional Medical Center ATTN: Nursery 544
South 400 East St.
George, Utah 84770
The Dixie
Regional Medical
Center in St. George, UT would LOVE to receive any handmade newborn
items such as hats, booties, blankets and burial gowns for the
babies.
They prefer sizes of items to be for 5 lb -10 lb babies please
as
the smaller, critical babies are flight-lifted to another
hospital.
If you click on their name/link above, it will take you to a page where
you can see some of the babies born at Dixie. :-) Fun colors for
holidays are welcomed too! So for July 4th-- Red, White and Blue
hats, for Halloween- why not orange and green, Christmas - red, white
and
green? Other times of year, any colors are fine.
We are desperately in need of bereavement gowns, preferably that open
in the back, any colors in sizes ranging from 1-8lbs. Any other
donations of hats, blankets, etc are greatly appreciated as well.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I am
the
owner/organizer of a crochet for charity group (Helping Hands for TN).
List below are the children's hospitals that we donate our crocheted
items to. They are always in need of preemie and newborn items
such as afghans/blankets, booties, preemie caps, preemie clothes.
If you
don't mind, please add these hospitals to the list. I am
the contact person that the items would need sent to. I would
make sure that the donated items get to the right place.
Thankyou,
Betty Flowers
5431 Old Stage Rd
Adamsville, TN 38310
(email) westtnhooker@earthlink.net
EAST TN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Knoxville, TN
LEBONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Memphis, TN
VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Nashville, TN Joan
M. Seergy CSW-R
Senior Social Worker Ambulatory Care, OB/GYN Long Island College Hospital 97 Amity Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn NY 11201 Joan's e-mail is: jseergy@chpnet.org Phone #'s: 718-780-1816 They NEED new purchased, gently used, and new handmade baby things, including hats and booties. They have lots of POOR and low income families they will GIVE (free) the baby things to.
LAMB
program
I
am the Director of Prison
Ministry at Vision of Hope Ministries in Parkersburg, WV.
Let me tell you about our LAMB program. LAMB stands for Love A Mother's
Baby. It is geared for the children and family caretakers of
incarcerated mothers. Many women enter prison pregnant and we provide
layettes and spiritual support for the mother and family caretakers.
While I crochet some of the layettes and afghans, I need to involve
other outreach groups to donate time and materials for this effort. I
have one person from church now donating yarn and this is keeping me
busy on the limited amout of patterns I have. We request donations of
baby yarn but sometimes we take any yarn we can get.
Clair E. Luckabaugh Vision of Hope Prison Ministry 118 Meadows MHP, #15 Parkersburg, WV 26104
Lullaby
Connection PO Box 2141 Las
Vegas, Nevada 89125-2141
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 and send them to:
Lincoln
Medical and Mental Health Center,
Attn:
Sister Mary Caulfield, Room
2D7,
234
E. 149th street, Bronx,
NY 10451
Direct
line to
Sister Mary,
1-718-579-5111
They
are need of help. No preemies, but
newborns.
They are in dire need of newborn
blankets right now, especially for going home, as the mothers
really
have nothing to wrap the babies up in. So blankies are a first priority
but they also need newborn sleepers,
hats, booties,sweaters,
robes, diaper shirts, in newborn sizes only. But blankies first.
NEW! June 2007
Mended Little Hearts Contact person
name and email Tanya Sanders tanyamendedhearts@yahoo.com Mailing address 5153 4th St Zephyrhills FL 33542 Website www.mlhofstpete.org 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.
we are not
choosey with what is donated to us, we
are thankful for any items that we receive to help those families who
are dealing with the loss of their baby. so any items preemie to newborn size (we of course have
more need for preemie clothing than
anything), clothing, blankets/ afghans, even scrapbooking items if anyone has
left overs and they do not know what to do with them.
The mailing address is: Special Care Nursery Northeast Heights Medical Center 4701 Montgomery Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87109 We can use most any size, shape and type of blanket. The blankets are sent home with the babies. We would also be thrilled to receive isolette covers- big enough to block out the bright lights and dark on the side facing the baby. The really fancy ones have flaps and end covers. Anything new and baby friendly would be happily put to use. The new nursery will be done in soft greens and blues... There is always a need for hats and booties if those are available. We tend to run out of the ones for 5-7 pound babies first. (Blow a balloon up till it measures 14" around the diameter and make the hat that size!) Thanks in advance from our babies and nurses
The
mailing address is: Northeast
Georgia Medical Center Labor
and Delivery Attn:
Niki Fields 743
Spring Street Gainesville,
GA 30501 Thank you
so much!!! The web address for the hospital is http://www.nghs.com They need burial
blanlets (12" or 15" square), burial pouches, tiny gowns that would fit
babies up to 2-3 lbs or so. Patterns can
be found here: http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/preemies.html#Tiny
"One thing
important is that we dont always know the sex of the baby due
to early gestation so a few white or neutral colors
would be great. We have plenty of gowns
for larger 4-8 lb infants.
The
service you and your volunteers are providing is truly a need and
much appreciated. It is not an area that gets much
attention but to know that these parents have
something to dress there precious child in certainly helps
in their feelings of helplessness and grief."
Ochsner
NICU in New
Orleans
Thanks so
much for your interest in our NICU. We love the homemade
products as do our parents. Our dream wish list would include burial
gowns that are white(can have small amount of embroidery), open in the
front is best with sleeves that are generous. Unfortunately when most
premies die they are swollen with extra fluid so we need a preemie size
that is flexible. Newborn sizes are needed as well. The soft
stretchy fabric makes great hats. Socks with embroidery make great
covers for feet as well as tiny hands.
Soft yarn
with limited fuzz can be used to knit warm items. Preemies
have delicate skin prone to irritation so many yarns are uncomfortable
for them. We do use small blankets as an outer blanket but our real
need is soft fleece sheets/blankets that the babies can lay on or be
wrapped in.
God bless
all of you who donate your time to make our babies
comfortable.
Sincerely,
Shelley
Thibeau, RNC
Please
send items to
Ochsner NICU,
1516 Jefferson Hwy,
New Orleans, LA 70121.
Attn: Shelley Thibeau
NEW CONTACT person (March 2007)
Ann Brooker, RN Sacred Heart Health Systems 5150 Bayou Blvd, Ste 1-N Pensacola, Florida 32503 P:(850) 416-6164 F:(850) 416-7348
abrooker@shhpens.org
Our
needs are items
for premature
babies, such as, blankets, caps, clothing, burial gowns, keepsake
bags
for bereaved mothers, and any other items that may be suitable for use
in the hospital or even to go home with the child upon discharge.
We also have an "Empty Arms" program where we send home a bear with
blanket
and such for mothers who have to go home without their baby. So
actually
any items that may be suitable would be greatly appreciated.
Sinai Childrens Hosiptal ATTN NICU/ Bernadette Folloso California Avenue at 15th Street Chicago, Illinois 60608
We are in need of preemie and newborn hats and
blankets. We currently have enough burial items. Thanks for
all you sent.
St.
Luke's
Hospital in
Bethlehem PA Contact person - Ranae
Walter, RN Ranae
C. Walter, RN Perinatal
Loss Coordinator St.
Luke's Hospital 801
Ostrum Street Room
# 366 Bethlehem,
Pa. 18015
610-954-3024
(has
confidential
voice mail) "All
size gowns or blankets from micro-preemie to newborn are needed.
I used to sew these items by myself, however and unfortunately our
numbers
are increasing. Last fiscal year (2003) we had 84 late losses and
268 early losses." Ranae
Heidi
Croteau/ Birthing Suite Speare
Memorial Hospital 16
Hospital Rd Plymouth,
NH 03264
Burial gowns in
all sizes are needed curently we have none. Caps
and booties for the gowns would be good too.
St Mary's Hospital in Madison WI We are in need of preemie burial outfits that include a hat, booties and blanket for sizes 2lb and up Please send items to the project coordinator Nicole Niedermeier 311 Seminary St #1, Lodi, WI 53555 __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Parkview hospital NIC Unit in Ft. Wayne, IN Need preemie hats & blankets. They also have some need for newborn hats & blankets. Contact person who will deliver items is:
Rose Monroe 510 South Main St. Dunkirk, IN 47336
Please include your mailing or email address so Rose can acknowledge receipt of items. Thanks!
Pennslyvania Hospital Intensive Care Nursery c/o Michelle Ferrant (anything can be mailed to me and I will bring it into work (if things are sent directly to the hospital they might be lost) 110 N Mole St Philadelphia, PA 19102
Needed: Preemie hats, booties, burial outfits and blankets ...and i would like to add at the request of the doc's and radiologist that no metal items (such as snaps) be used... since they show up on xray and obscure findings... velcro is preferred.
3020
Children's Way MC5032 San
Diego CA 92123
Contact
Julie Marzo
In
need of preemie
hats.
Bereavement items needed in Torrence,
California
My name is
Natalie Salmon-Creede and I am the bereavement
coordinator in Labor and Delivery @ Torrance Memorial Medical Center. I
am also a RN in L&D. I have always wanted to improve our program
for families with loss, and we really are trying to help create
positive memories for families who lose these babies. We are looking
for clothing for these babies. We have about 40 stillborn/neonatal
losses a year. We are hoping to have each of them clothed. If anyone
has any ideas where we can get clothing donated, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Items needed:
Fetal demise pouches and tiny blankets for babies under 1 lb and under,
little gowns, blankets, caps and booties for babies 2 lbs - 8 lbs.
Kathy Kulinski or
Cindy O'Hara c/o The Birthing
Inn, Loudoun
Healthcare, 44045
Riverside Parkway, Leesburg,
VA 20176.
Contact
people: Kathy Kulinski or Cindy O'Hara. I'm
guessing we probably have 15-20 demises a year, but as our county is
the fastest growing in the US, that number may go up shortly.
Burial gowns, booties, buntings, and caps are needed in all sizes.
Thanks so much!!
University of Chicago
Hospitals I am the
Recreation
Therapist at the University of Chicago Hospitals. I work with pregnant
women who are here on bedrest due to complications with pregnancy. They
are often here until they deliver, and their babies are often
premature. If anyone would like to donate to us I am sure the mothers
would appreciate it. Right now,
I see a
need for baby
hats and booties of all sizes. Blankets are also great. Burial
items are a good idea too.
Bridget
Hanson, C.T.R.S.
University
of Chicago Hospitals
MC 1081
5841 S.
Maryland Ave.
Chicago IL
60637-1470
My work
phone number is 773-845-9483. I can also be paged at work through our
operators by calling 773-702-6800 and asking them to send a message
through to pager 6525.
(Note
from Bev-- having been through this situation myself, it would be
lovely to include perhaps handmade slippers
for the mamas who have to spend so
much time in the hospitals to save their babies.) UTAH - NEW listing Jan 2007
Carlene said
that they already have a person who does burial gowns for
stillborns, so their basic need is blankets. 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.
She did not specify a size, color or pattern.
Parkland
Memorial Hospital 5201
Harry Hines Dallas,
Texas 75235 (214)
590-8827
Infant
items needed:
Infant
belonging bags 11" x 15" in either pink and/or blue material for girl
and
boy babies with a drawstring of satin ribbon. Currently, infant
belongings
are carried home in brown paper bags.
Infant
gowns - all sizes (preemies to 10 lb. babies). Lightweight
cotton/batiste
for summer, cotton flannel for winter (infant pastel colors).
Receiving
blankets (infant pastel colors).
Infant
knitted or crocheted hats and booties.
Updated May 2007
Erin Havrilla C/O Vanderbilt Children's Hospital NICU 2200 Children's Way Nashville, TN 37232 Phone # 615-936-2241 Only accepting newborn size knitted hats and blankets at this time...
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