Today I’d like to share one of my all time favorite charities. Preemies of the Carolinas is a beautiful charity that provides homemade blankets, hats, and inspirational hearts to preemie babies in multiple NICU’s throughout North and South Carolina. They also send packets to parents nationwide that have a baby staying in a NICU.
I came across this charity a few months ago when I was searching for some good community service projects to get involved with. Immediately I knew that I wanted to get involved and help bring some comfort to these preemie babies and their families.
Creating Inspirational Hearts
At first I didn’t know what they meant by inspirational hearts, but reading about it melts my heart. On their website they give a pattern for how to make them and explain the process as follows:
“Inspirational Hearts are given to mothers whose newborn infants have been admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The fabric heart is worn against the mother’s skin so that the fabric absorbs the scent of the parents. The heart is placed with the baby in the isolette or crib so the mother is always with her child.”
If that doesn’t make your heart go out to those families I don’t know what would. If you are interested in getting involved you can find more details on their website at https://preemiesofthecarolinas.com/inspirational-hearts/ They also accept donations of crochet and knitted baby hats and blankets with details given at https://preemiesofthecarolinas.com/preemie-hats/ and https://preemiesofthecarolinas.com/blankets/
So far I have only had the chance to make a few blankets, hearts, and hats. But as I am putting together my second package to send to them, my heart is filled with love and compassion. I will be going through the process I use making simple flannel blankets with hand sewn edges, big granny square crochet blankets, 9 granny square blankets, and simple crochet preemie baby hats in future posts if you would like pattern ideas for blankets and hats.
I hope this will help to reach even one more volunteer for their cause, to help them fulfill their goal of comforting these preemie babies and their families. If you have any more questions be sure to check out their full website at https://preemiesofthecarolinas.com/