The Annual Drop-Off

January and February went past in a flash so I only just got to deliver the Blankets of Love to the John Hunter Hospital yesterday. I handed over 30 beautiful little quilts for families in need. Apart from the original reason for these quilts...the need has grown to another area as well. This drive was originally started to help grieving families of a still born child or one that had passed away shortly after birth... but thanks to the advances in medicine and science that number is reducing.  These Blankets of Love are also making a difference in another way as well. The family of any baby that is a long stay in the natal unit is made feel more at home and the crib more "personal" by using one of these quilts on their tiny beds. Maree has told me over the phone that "it helps make the burden and frustration of not being able to take your precious baby home a little more bearable".
I think if these Blankets of Love make a small difference to a new parent, in need of some "special" help... that's a great reason for me to donate them!
I hope you all feel the same!
Thank You goes to all the ladies who have generously donated a quilt in 2012...

This is the 2013 "AngeL"... 

so if you want to display one on YOUR blog... 

please donate a tiny "Blanket of Love" this year. 

Details are on the sidebar...

Nurse "Gabby" accepting all 30 Blankets of Love yesterday. 

To see more pic's... just go to my other blog... HERE.

Hugs... CheryLL

AnnUaL DoNaTioN

Today I delivered 18 little "Blankets of Love" to the John Hunter Children's Hospital here in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
I spoke to Maree again, the supervisor of the NeoNatal Unit, and was told that the unit had over 1100 babies pass through it in 2011 with only 3 fatalities. ANY number is never a good number but considering the total number of babies treated... that's pretty good. Of course these blankets also go out to the families of little stillborns in the unit next door. I didn't get a number this year but last year the whole floor needed 19 but numbers were down from that Maree said.
Some blankets even go home with live babies too (isn't that a wonderful idea as well) when a little one has stayed a long and worrying period under neo-natal care. Maree said that it gave comfort to the mothers of any long term patients by having something personal (made from LoVe) that belonged to their child alone, she felt.
Just one other way of offering a helping hand that I hadn't thought of.
In any capacity that these blankets are used... I'm just happy to be making a difference.
Thanks MUST go out to my many angels in 2011. Without the generosity of these lovely ladies... Joyce, O'Faigh, Maria, Shez and Sue B ... I would struggle under the weight of supplying the number of blankets needed.

Thanks 2011 ANGeLs....

If you would like to become an AnGeL too... please just email me.
Then you'll be able to add this cute button to YOUR blog to let everyone know just how SpEciAl you are!