Miracle Babies

Miracle Babies is differentiated in that we care for families of the most critically-ill infants. Miracle Babies believes that no family should have to face an economic crisis or ruin because of pre-term birth or major congenital defect. All parents should have access to their new baby regardless of financial or medical status.

Miracle Babies helps NICU families in three important ways: Transportation services our Special Delivery shuttle van provides home to hospital to home service enabling new parents to be united with their newborn. Miracle Babies works closely with hospital social workers to ensure NICU parents have access to their newborns. In addition to transportation assistance, our Miracle Hours provide a unique opportunity for NICU parents to get together, share concerns and feel the support of peers who understand the intricacies and challenges of having a baby in the NICU. Often these parents struggle with feelings of isolation, causing anxiety and depression at the precise time their baby needs them most.
We also distribute MB Cares packages, containing essential items and resource materials to aid and comfort families during their baby’s NICU stay. Contents are intended to support parents who spend considerable time in the NICU performing kangaroo care (skin to skin bonding) and breastfeeding.

The goal of our programs are to enable parents to spend more time with their infants in the NICU.
Moms who spend time in the NICU are more likely to breastfeed, a practice with well-documented and enduring benefits. When a baby is born prematurely, mom’s breast milk will contain a greater amount of nutrients that are specific to the preemie’s needs.

We know we can change health outcomes if we remove the barriers to families being with their babies, providing more opportunities for breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact. Our tagline is “Together for a better beginning,” reflecting the importance of this family connection in the critical early weeks and months of an infant’s life and its linkage to improved health outcomes.

The support Miracle Babies provides to families in the NICU helps them spend more time with their babies and provide breastmilk-practices that are strongly linked to improved health outcomes, shorter hospital stays, and improved parent-child bonding.

When we intervene and provide key resources during the weeks following a child's birth, we have the potential to positively impact health outcomes for an entire generation of children, changing the NICU experience from one of fear and helplessness to one of empowerment and positivity.

We are actively building our corporate, foundation, government, board of directors and individual donor base.
We partner and collaborate with other social service agencies, health clinics, hospital partners including social workers to work together to address the unmet and unique needs of NICU parents.

We have several large fundraisers including a luncheon, a gala and a 5K walk. When appropriate, we pursue community and public grant opportunities.

For the grant period of 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2019 we distributed over 2000 care bags to comfort NICU families during their many crib-side hours in the hospital. Additionally, we provided financial assistance to over 500 families in San Diego County and hosted nearly 100“Miracle Hours” in local hospitals where we provided a craft project and a warm
meal to help NICU parents escape the isolation of the NICU.
In June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic Miracle Babies launched transportation service. In the first 5 months of operation 13,000 miles have been driven taking parents to and from the hospital.