August 8 (Day 161) Newborns In Need

Newborns in Need provides care necessities to premature, ill or impoverished newborns to give them a safe, healthy start in life. Volunteers work tirelessly in their own communities all across the United States. Founded on Christian principles, we provide help to all babies who need our assistance. In 2009, we donated out 493,207 items!


Can you imagine what it would be like to have a new baby and nowhere to turn? Other than the clothes and blankets the hospital provides, there is no decorated room, no dresser of clothes, no crib or bassinet waiting. Can you imagine holding a 3 pound baby in your arms and wondering where to get clothing when she goes home? Will there be something to fit someone so small? Diapers or heat, electricity or food, hard decisions are being made and this can result in unintended harm to the newborn. Poverty or illness touches the tiniest babies and families become overwhelmed. Imagine that in the midst of the fear, the sadness and a sense of “what do I do”, a nurse, a doctor, a social worker, or a friend touches your shoulder and hands you a basket full of blankets, diapers, and baby clothes.

We pray that no mother has to hold a dying or stillborn baby in her arms, but it happens in hospitals across our country. Families struggle as they want to memorialize their child but are not prepared for the moment they never planned for. A baby loses it’s fight for life and, as you are handed the child you so desperately wished for, you never expected to see your child dressed and wrapped in a beautiful blanket and that child’s life is validated and acknowledged by a group of strangers whom you have never met but who provided for you and the baby in your arms.

The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Thirty-four percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 -- about 820,000 a year. Eight in ten of these teen pregnancies are unintended and Newborns in Need has distributed millions of dollars worth of donated and purchased baby items through dozens of local community-based agencies and organizations.

Newborns in Need, made up of volunteers across the United States, is dedicated to making sure that the teen mom, the stressed family, the mother overwhelmed in sadness is supported in the first moments of the child’s life. The “911” for babies, Newborns In Need is the organization mobilized across the United States to offer baby items to those families who need help. Raising awareness, opening new chapters, Newborns In Need believes that communities can and will help each other if given the vehicle to do so. Whether crafted with love by the hands of a volunteer or donated by others who understand we need to take care of each other, Newborns In Need has positioned itself as the first response for the baby in crisis.



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Source:  Newborns In Need