On May 22, 2025 HBA received an email by way of our website from Ruby Khoury, an RN with Enloe Hospice in Chico, CA. Ruby explained that their facility used to deal only with adults, but this year so far, they have had 4 infants admitted into their facility, all with life ending illnesses. She wrote the following request to us:
"Hello, I am a hospice RN in Chico, CA; we currently have a sweet 1 month old with Trisomy 18 on hospice (life expectancy several months at best). Wondering if you would be able to donate a gender neutral white gown for him (he is 5.5 lbs know). Thank you, Ruby Khoury, RN Enloe Hospice;
Sally, our secretary, contacted Ruby by phone and explained that we will send several different size outfit sets for this baby, but also will send a complete delivery donation containing about 80 infant bereavement items so she can keep some on hand for her facility and dispense the rest of our donation to the local labor and delivery hospitals in her area. The shipment was sent out on May 23rd.
On May 30th 2025, we received the following email from Ruby Khoury, RN at Enloe Hospice:
"To say our hearts are overwhelmed by your generosity is an understatement. The box packed and prepared with such love arrived today. We opened it with tears running down our faces; so so thankful to have wonderful humans who do not even know us help us in caring for our tiniest patients.
We are currently taking care of this sweet little bundle of joy; our hearts fill with grief knowing he will not be with us long; he has a syndrome that is NOT compatible with life and will live several months at best. Our hospice is glad to be able to support the parents to have him home with them at the end of his life.
The gift of your sweet gown (and FULL set) will mean so much to them. They plan to have a dedication service at the house (he is not stable to be taken out) for him and will have him wear the gown that ALL YOU WONDERFUL people put together for him. They know they will be receiving this gift from your organization (but due to HIPPA: I cannot give you his name) and wanted me to say “thank you” on their behalf. They are a bit overwhelmed with the full time care they have to provide while getting to keep this baby at home, thus they do not have time to send their own “thank you”.
The rest of the wonderful outfits: will ALL be utilized for babies lost too soon. We plan to share them with our own rural hospital and with another local hospital in Northern California (with the OB and small NICU units); both hospitals will also know that these are gifts from your wonderful organization.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Ruby Khoury, RN"
On May 2, 2025 HBA sent a shipment of 80 infant bereavement items to RWJ Barnabas Health Community Medical Center in Toms River, NJ to their Labor and Delivery Department and NICU. Their labor and delivery units are equipped with state of the art technology for high-risk deliveries and premature babies.
Their NICU is staffed with specially trained nurses and board certified neonatologists.
On May 9, 2025 HBA sent out a shipment of 80 infant bereavement items to Saint Mary's General Hospital in Passaic, NJ. St. Mary's is ranked the #1 Hospital Maternity Unit in Northern New Jersey and the Tri-State Area on Google, the fully renovated Maternal-Child Health Center at St. Mary’s General Hospital features a Level II Nursery specializing in the delivery and care of high-risk infants born as early as 32 weeks.
On April 11 2025 HBA sent a shipment of 80 infant bereavement items to Indiana Regional Medical Center to their Labor and Delivery Department. IRMC is a "not for profit" hospital located in Indiana, PA. and has been in operation since 1914.
On April 4, 2025 HBA sent a shipment of 80 infant bereavement items to Shore Medical Center located in Somers Point, NJ. It was addressed to the attention of their Labor and Delivery/NICU Nurse Managers. We received a beautiful thank you email from Nicole DeCicco, RN, MSN that is listed below:
"Thank you so much for your beautiful donations to Shore Medical Center!
Though we hope to not use these items, they are so wonderful to have and give to the parents after such a heart wrenching experience.
Your kindness is truly appreciated !
Nicole DeCicco Rn, MSN
Administrative Director Maternal Child Health"
HBA was contacted by Christine , a Medical Social Worker that donated her wedding gown to our program. Christine's office is affiliated with UChicago Medicine Advent Health in Bolingbrook, IL. When we contacted her to let her know that the outfits were completed from her gown donation, she asked if it would be possible to include them in a shipment delivery to UChicago. We contacted the labor and delivery department and spoke with Alissa, who was very interested in receiving a delivery from HBA. A shipment of about 80 infant bereavement items were sent out to her attention on 3/7/25 and it did include the outfits that were created from Christine's gown.
Heaven's Baby Angels was contacted by Sarah Arute from the Labor and Delivery department of University of MD Shore Medical Center in Easton, MD. Sarah placed a shipment delivery request and it was sent out on February 3, 2025 to her attention and to the attention of the Labor and Delivery department.
We received a beautiful thank you email from Sarah that is below:
"Sally (and the volunteers who work so hard on these beautiful gowns)
We were all so impressed by the level of detail and thought put into each and every single package! I cannot thank you enough for your effort and your dedication to the program you help run. The small pouches for the tiniest of babies will be perfect for the moms who come through the ER and deliver those under 20 weeks. We’ve been seeing it more often,
Thank you again from myself and the nurses who help run my department. We are all very thankful for your contribution and we are excited to have something added to the few things we currently have. It was all so beautiful 💕
Respectfully,
Sarah Arute "
On January 26, 2025 a shipment of 80 infant bereavement items were shipped to PIH Health Whittier Hospital in Whittier, CA to the attention of the Labor and Delivery Department. This was a Memorial Delivery request we received to be made in the loving memory of Lola Rose who was born asleep at PIH in November.
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