Our thankful video…
A little over a month ago, many people around the world did not know our story and many like ours. They didn’t know that yes, in 2014, the diagnosis of Down syndrome is still being delivered in an insensitive manner, many families are leaving the hospital without a congratulations, and babies are not celebrated. But now they do…and I am so thankful for the ways it was featured in the following ways…to God be the glory!
. This is where it all begins…so grateful!
. Watch us filling the baskets and your amazing donations!
. This article was so well written and I loved it!
. What a great conversation I had with this writer and it shares how one family felt receiving a basket!
Also, Yahoo news, international daily news, our alma mater’s paper, and my hometown paper shared our mission!
A little over a month ago, I didn’t know many of your stories. My inbox has been filled with stories of the amazing ways people with Down syndrome have positively affected them! I so wish I could personally respond to each of your emails…I’m working on it, but it’s up over 200 emails! I do read them…I just have a hard time responding in a quick reply, so I am slowly trying to get to them all!
A little over a month ago, I had no idea the response we would get to the baskets!! Over 150 baskets are funded from all over the US! Today, we received a check for $800 from some very close friends and tears streamed down our faces, humbled by the generosity, the way people give so freely, the amazing response and love…we can not thank you enough! YOU are helping us CELEBRATE BABIES!!
I did not know the feeling I would get after getting a chance to personally meet three families that received a basket. In the past month, 11 babies with Down syndrome (5 in the TC) have been born and celebrated! Two weeks ago, I delivered a basket to a mom that got her son’s diagnosis at birth. I walked into her room, hugged and listened to her, answered her questions, and as I was about to leave I couldn’t help but see her gaze at her son with hope. Hope that her son will change her life for the better. I promised her that. I left that hospital sharing with others…I LOVE DELIVERING THESE BASKETS!
Over the past month, I got numerous messages inquiring about how to get this started in other areas in the US. Emails of people ACTING…and doing this in their area and those wanting to! What if every baby in the US was celebrated!? PRAISE GOD!! We have mailed baskets out to those that have requested…states include MI, WV, CT, IL, OH, and NC and we are more than happy to do so! MAKING A CHANGE!!
A few of us from the
medical outreach committee and a few other families gathered and assembled 30 baskets so they are ready for the families. There are five people delivering baskets to the Twin Cities birth centers. All the birth centers in the TC!!! Do you know that this was a dream of mine…I wrote about it
in a blog post. A dream…and you helped it become a reality! THANK YOU!! We will be assembling more baskets in February with my MOPS group and also in September at the first annual
conference.
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