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Helping UMC Vegas Babies in 2009
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My husband recently was in a bad moped accident here in Logandale and was air-flighted to UMC Hospital in Las Vegas'  trauma unit. While he was being treated for his broken neck, for several days at UMC I stayed with him as much as I could.  While he slept, I knitted and crocheted a few newborn hats.  I took them up to the maternity floor and the ladies at the reception desk there were SO thankful for those 7 hats.  You would have thought I had handed them a bag of gold, not little hats.  I wished I had had about 30 hats to give them!

So, I decided to make UMC my main project for 2009, to especially make a total of 500 newborn hats, booties and maybe a quilt or two. 

UMC is the county hospital and they receive any and all patients in need, whether they can pay or not, have insurance or not, or are homeless and distitute.  Many babies are born there every week who are born into poverty and are in need of clothing in fact there are 15-20 babies born there every day and UMC wants to make sure each baby that leaves UMC has clothing to take with them. So that's where we come in.  Even if you can knit up one little hat it will help warm a little one.

They can use anything for newborns really but the list below are items most needed.  If you would like to join me, Bev Qualheim, in making as many needed items as I possibly can for them in 2009 please do!

Here is a PAGE OF Baby PATTERNS you can use, or use your own.
 
Full term Newborn clothing (hats and booties; sweaters, sleepers, onesies, bibs, burp cloths etc. ) and blankets; 

(no preemie items for now as they are overstocked)

Other layette items including:
diapers
bottles
toys and rattles
baby cream,
baby oil and baby powder  

Any of the above is appreciated.  

Contact person - please mail all items to:
Suzanne Fain, Volunteer Services Director
1800 W. Charleston Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV  89102
 
702-383-2388   E-Mail:  suzanne.fain@umcsn.com  

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