Welcome to this month's edition of “Special Delivery”, the monthly newsletter from Miracle Babies! Each month, we will share information about Miracle Babies events, news, and, most importantly, our impact. We are proud of our work and it is important for us to share these accomplishments with supporters like you!
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Share a picture of your NICU baby to provide hope and
inspiration to others.
Make sure to follow us on social media! Email pictures to info@miraclebabies.org or post on our social media pages.
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Miracle Babies had this impact in August 2020:
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The Miracle Babies Shuttle provided 91 rides totaling more than 4,500 miles.

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Hosted 4 Virtual “Miracle Hours” connecting dozens of NICU parents to one another. Having a NICU baby can be isolating and overwhelming. Having a baby in the NICU during the COVID-19 pandemic adds a whole new set of stressors.
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170 care packages were delivered to 6 hospitals. These packages contain contents intended to support parents who spend considerable time in the NICU breastfeeding and providing “kangaroo care”.

- 70,050 diapers distributed to 830 families.
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Thanks to San Diego's #1 Hit Music Station 933, for the shout out highlighting Miracle Babies Diaper Distributions.
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Did you catch us in the August edition of Giving Back Magazine? Click here
Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, SD SciFi Coalitions, Star Wars Society, Kids Cosplay, donors including Frank Motors, Jack in the Box and the San Diego Food Bank for enabling us to provide over 3800 families nearly 350,000 diapers in the past few months.
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Thank you to all our sponsors, teams, participants and donors, together we raised over $76,000 for NICU parents!
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NICU Awareness Month
September is NICU Awareness Month, let us celebrate and bring awareness not only to the cause but take action to promote methodologies that can improve outcomes for mothers and newborns.
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We hope you will support our efforts, along with other organizations around the world, in promoting #NICUAwareness Month. We encourage you to change your Facebook or Instagram profile pictures to one of the Miracle Babies #NICUAwareness Month frames by clicking here.
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Thank You To These
Generous Supporters
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Special thank you to Pace Recovery Center for your Benefactor Sponsorship at our upcoming Phantom Gala. We appreciate the continued support from PACE Recovery Center, especially during these challenging times. PACE Recovery is a premiere recovery center in Newport Beach, CA. Miracle Babies is honored to be a charity of choice for PACE.
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Thank you to top team ~Team Berkley for raising more than $10,000 for the 2020 #MB5K! Team Berkley has raised almost $70,000 in the past 7 years for Miracle Babies.
Each year the Roper Family walk/fundraise in memory of their daughter Berkley
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Thank you to Ms. Sandy Camarillo for her Friend Sponsorship in the 2020 #MB5K. Sandy has been a long time supporter of Miracle Babies and is always willing to lend a helping hand. We love and appreciate her spirit and enthusiasm for Miracle Babies' mission!
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This past month we delivered dozens of diapers and 40 care packages to UCI Medical Center. Thank you to WaterWipes, Swaddle4Swaddle, FayFaire, and SoP for donating care and comfort items for our NICU families.
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Thank you to the following Facebook friends who “hosted” Facebook fundraisers in August to raise money for Miracle Babies: Mia Weidenbach, Samantha Romero, Lindsey Mains, Jasmine Harris, Sierra Csiz, Nadfe Guerrero, and Cynthia Jass -we appreciate each one of you!
If you are interested in “hosting” your own Facebook fundraiser for Miracle Babies, go to the Fundraiser section of the Miracle Babies page and click on “Raise Money” or click below.
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Meet Miracle Baby Alexander born 7/5/19 at 35 weeks, spending 35 days in the NICU. Alexander had a VSD (Ventricular septal defect) and due to his premature birth, he had difficulty breathing, sucking, and swallowing, which resulted in the need for a temporary feeding tube.
Alexander's mom, Violet, is thankful for the amazing nurses at Sharp Mary Birch that cared for her son and encouraged her to attend Miracle Hour. Violet reflects, "While lunch may sound like a simple gesture, for parents who spend hours at the hospital every day and often go without eating, having someone provide free lunch was such a blessing! Additionally, allowing families to get creative in an arts and crafts activity was therapeutic! It was here that I met other moms who understood what I was going through. Everyone shared their own stories and for the first time since giving birth, I felt like I wasn't so alone in the NICU journey. I hadn't realized how much my brain and mental health needed to focus on something other than the beeping monitors and constant worry. Thank you, Miracle Babies. The work you do matters!"
We are happy to share the cardiologist found no heart abnormality and Alexander was cleared from taking further medication. Alexander enjoys feeding himself and his favorite food is--anything orange and he just started to take his first little steps. We look forward to watching Alexander grow over the years!
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Each month, “Special Delivery” will spotlight a “Miracle Worker” – someone who contributes to make Miracle Babies great! |
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Meet Kim proud mom to one little girl Jaedyn and five surro-babies. Kim learned about Miracle Babies while being cared for by founder Dr. Sean Daneshmand in 2016, with no first hand experience in the NICU but a knowledge of the challenges families face while in the NICU planted the seed to serve along side the Miracle Babies staff in any capacity.
In 2017 Kim’s first set of surro-twins spent a week in the NICU and during her visits was reminded of all she learned on her journey through Dr. Daneshmand and started to volunteer on the annual 5K committee.
Most recently Kim has dedicated all of her Saturday's through the COVID-19 pandemic to manage traffic control at our diaper distributions. She has become very creative in managing traffic flow providing a quick, pleasurable experience for participants. Kim states, "volunteering for Miracle Babies has provided me with so much joy and light in such an uncertain time. It also allows me to show Jaedyn that being bigger than yourself and paying it forward in little acts is a big blessing to those on the receiving end." Thank you Kim (aka Clorox queen) for ensuring our diaper distributions run smoothly and safely. Additionally, we are extremely grateful for Kim keeping us stocked with clorox wipes!
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