Providing Much Needed Supplies
In response to the financial stress the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on families, we are hosting drive-thru diaper distributions for families in Southern California.
Monthly Diaper Drives
Once a month events giving away thousands of diapers
Free Diapers for All Families
Ease the burden of financial stress - Diaper Drives are for all families, not just families with Miracle Babies.
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Supplies Support
Care Packages
Miracle Babies Care Bags are distributed monthly to NICU’s throughout Southern California, and quarterly at CHOC and UCI in Orange County.
Provide NICU support for families
Care Packages contain resources for families along with comfort and care items.
Supports families
Care Packages support families who spend considerable time in the NICU that perform kangaroo care (skin to skin bonding) and breastfeeding and to support families as they transition home from the NICU
Parental Support
Miracle Hours
Miracle Hours provide a unique way of supporting parents with hospitalized newborns. Miracle Babies provides meals and crafts for the families in the hospital which allows them to come together to verbalize their concerns, seek peer support and validation all while making memories during their NICU stay.
Uniting Families
The purpose of Miracle Hour is to mobilize internal strengths, promote hopefulness and enhance the parents' coping abilities to benefit NICU patients.
Group Therapy
Therapy through crafting and storytelling with families going through the same experiences.
Maternal Mental Health Support
My Brain & My Baby
The Miracle Babies Maternal Mental Wellness Program (My Brain & My Baby) is designed to provide individual and group therapy, support and resources at no cost to referred individuals experiencing maternal mental health conditions.
Assistance with Mental Health Support
Not only are they incredibly common, but they are preventable and treatable.
Mental Health Education
Additional resources provided for additional options and for your education
Shuttle Services
Transportation
Our Special Delivery shuttle vans provide free roundtrip transportation to moms with complicated pregnancies, babies with cardiac defects, and parents with an infant in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Miracle Babies works closely with hospital clinicians and health care providers to ensure parents have access to their newborns addressing inequities for low-income parents through free access to transportation.
Provide Rides to and From the NICU
Families can spend more time with their babies providing breast feeding and kangaroo care.
Offsets Costs to Families
Easing the burden of costly transportation for vital visits to NICU
Eligibility for referral to Miracle Babies Transportation Program:
- The Transportation Program is specific to families who have a newborn(s) in the NICU/CTICU or those with babies diagnosed with a CHD at a partnering hospital.
- Referrals are only accepted by hospital social workers.
- Participants must be independent to get in and out of the shuttle.
- Transportation is only provided within the county of the hospital
Transportation is only for the parents. Other adult caregivers will be considered space permitting. - Rider must be able to ride cooperatively with others.
