FORT LAUDERDALE- Safe Haven Baby Boxes and A Safe Haven for Newborns are two charities with similar names and the same goal: providing distressed mothers with a safe place to surrender their unwanted newborns instead of dumping them in trash cans or along roadsides. But a fight between the two...
Safe Haven Baby Boxes mission is to prevent illegal abandonment of newborns by raising awareness, offering a 24-hour hotline for mothers in crisis, and offering the SHBB as a last-resort option for women who want to maintain complete anonymity. - shbb.org Jana Keyes The SHBB is designed ...
The "safe-haven laws" (also called "Baby Moses laws") from which the baby drop-off boxes stemmed are not a new legal development. Texas was the first state to enact such a policy in 1999, after a string of fatal infant abandonments. At that time, law enforcement agents struggled to ad...
Parents love this multimode tub for its affordability, but there’s a lot more to rave about. It checks all of the boxes you’d want or need in a basin tub: excellent infant support; grows with baby; easy to clean; and well priced. First-time parents call out its versatility and fun...
As far as baby essentials go, they don’t come much more necessary than wipes. Used for everything from nappy changes to mealtime clear-ups, baby wipes will become your new best friend in no time. Here are the ones we think work best - all plastic-free. ...
You certainly can, by all means, use the crib right away after finding thebest crib mattressif you choose, but most parents find putting their tiny, helpless newborns into giant, spacious, jail-like (yet well-appointed!) cribs just doesn’t feel right:it’s a bit overkill for a newborn...
The founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes is Monica Kelsey who started the organization after learning that she was abandoned as an infant. Prior to the installation of the first safe haven box in 2016, two to three babies were abandoned and left to die in Indiana each y...
New parents tend to go ‘gaga’ over newborn clothing. I’ve seen teenie tiny dresses, brand name jeans, and dozens of designer sleepers in the shopping carts of many expectant parents —“Only the best for my baby,” seems to be the sentiment. The reality is those newborns grow fast,...
This warmer is sized similarly to those boxes, but has a somewhat smaller capacity due to the extra insulation in the base and the warmer in the top, which limits the space left for wipes. Maybe it had to be that way to keep the product from being too clunky, or maybe the warmer ...
Eye tests for children are designed to be engaging, straightforward and age-appropriate. Parents can make the experience positive by explaining the process in simple terms and bringing along a favourite toy for comfort. Caring for your child’s eyes is very important, even if there are no clear...