Safe Haven babies are given a chance for a future. Lives are being saved due to the strong Safe Haven alliance and partnerships with hospitals and Fire and EMS stations working to receive a Safe Haven Baby.
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hours of operation, and age limits for the newborns being abandoned. The purpose of these laws is to create designated spaces for parents in crisis to safely surrender their babies in their communities. At these locations, the babies will be protected and provided...
The first Safe Haven Baby Box was implemented in 2016, and after that, many more went up all over the United States. This resulted in many babies nationwide being surrendered and kept safe. The Safe Haven Baby Box organization staffs a 24-hour hotline (1-866-99BABY1). "A Baby Box is...
Since the first safe haven box was installed in Indiana, no babies have died due to abandonment in the state. All 50 states have some form of safe haven laws which allows for a parent to leave their newborn baby at a designated area with no criminal penalties. The...
Sean Daneshmand, MD, an OB-GYN and the founder of Miracle Babies, also offers some reassurance: "This was a study on low-risk patients with a very small sample population without any difference in pregnancy complications or newborn outcomes," he says. "Given the very low incidence of stillb...
“Fully hydrolyzed” infant formulas are truly hypoallergenic, and are necessary for babies with true food allergies. But most babies who are thought to be “intolerant” of certain formulas don’t actually have allergies at all. “Partially hydrolyzed” formulas try to sort of imply that they’...
The light turned green and I drove away. But I haven’t forgotten you. I wonder if you are still sad. I wonder what has gone through your head. I wonder, have you thought of ending it all? Suicide. It’s entered my world recently in different ways. An old friend, a distant family...
Disadvantaged women are preemptively judged as "bad" mothers whose babies would be better off without them. Laury Oaks argues that the labeling of certain kinds of women as potential "bad" mothers who should consider anonymously giving up their newborns for adoption into a "loving" home should ...
Subsequently, laws designed to save the lives of babies and mothers by preventing the interrelated tragedies of unsafe child abandonment and infanticide were enacted in all fifty states between 1999 and 2008. The legislation itself, safe haven legislation (SHL), was often highly publicized but has ...