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Care packages for parents of premature newborns

Posted: Mar 17, 2012 12:57 PM CDTBy Jennifer Kliese MCFARLAND (WKOW) — An area non-profit group is putting together care packages for families with premature newborns. It’s called Mikayla’s Grace–started by a couple who lost their baby after just two days. On Saturday, more than 30 people gathered at the Terrills’ home in McFarland to put...

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Mikayla’s Grace event to raise awareness

Posted: Mar 10, 2012 9:42 AM CSTBy Katie Priebe MADISON (WKOW) – An organization formed to support families with a baby in the NICU is working on a Flower Fundraiser to raise awareness. Mikayla’s Grace provides NICU care packages and angel memory boxes. The organization was started in honor of Mikayla Grace, a baby who died...

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October Update

On October 7th we donated 20 NICU care packages, 20 angel memory boxes, 26 baby blankets, 19 burial gowns, 24 preemie clothes, and a book for the NICU library to St. Mary’s Hospital.  This was our second donation to the hospital, and makes our total donations to St. Mary’s 32 angel memory boxes, 40 NICU care...

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October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

Many people know that October is the nationally recognized month of Breast Cancer Awareness.  Most do not know that it is also the nationally recognized month of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness as proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. October 15th was then envisioned as a day for families and friends to come together to remember and...

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NICU Family Feature: Isaac

September’s NICU family feature is written by a woman that I met through our infant loss support group.  It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, we hadn’t even met and this last year we have been through so much together.  We feel so blessed to have met Keith and Claire, and are...

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NICU Family Feature: Nora

July’s NICU family is another amazing story.  I was connected through Meghan when we did our news story with Channel 3000 for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.  Meghan and Brian told their story the week before for the same channel.  Their story started out very much like ours, with their daughter being born just under 25...

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NICU Family Feature: Alexander

Time for our monthly feature of a family who has endured a NICU stay with their baby. Juanita and Nathan are kind enough to share the story of their son, Alexander. When I went into labor at 32 weeks, I was terrified.  My previous son was born at 35 weeks, and everyone told me how lucky...

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June 24, 2011

Today we made our first donation to St. Mary’s hospital.  We donated 12 Angel memory boxes, 20 NICU care packages, 66 books, and 28 gowns with matching booties and hats!!  And of course, to thank the amazing nurses who work at St. Mary’s we made them strawberry cupcakes.  It just barely fit in the back...

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NICU Family Feature: Caleb

As a way to increase awareness of what the families we serve go through, we are starting a new monthly feature allowing families who’ve had a NICU stay to share their stories. We hope that eventually these will be families that were able to utilize the NICU care packages that we provide at our local hospitals. I...