WITH NOTHING FOR THEIR NEWBORN and unused to cold Seattle winters, a couple feared that they would have to leave the hospital with their baby wrapped in a sweater. When a nurse requested "everything" needed for the newborn, the Baby Corner provided this family with diapers, clothing, a handmade quilt, and other necessities. When the mother saw what the Baby Corner had provided for her baby, she burst into tears.

BECAUSE OF SEVERE DEPRESSION,  a pregnant woman stopped going to her prenatal visits. Her social worker told the Baby Corner that the woman's teenage son, who had been shot to death accidentally, was buried in an unmarked grave. With the Baby Corner's assistance, a marker was purchased and installed, lifting the mom's spirits. Not only did she resume her prenatal visits, but she sent the Baby Corner a drawing of her son and poetry that she had written.

WHEN A YOUNG MOTHER had no option but to live with a family in which the adults were heavy smokers, a nurse was concerned for the premature infant’s health. After calling the Baby Corner, the nurse consulted a respiratory therapist to determine which air purifier would be the most appropriate for the situation. Through the Baby Corner, an air purifier was purchased so that the air in the baby’s room could be kept acceptably clean.

WHEN THEIR PREMATURE baby girl died, a young Bulgarian couple with no resources or connections in the community couldn’t pay funeral expenses or arrange an appropriate service in their Orthodox faith. After a call from their social worker, the Baby Corner pulled together the resources to do the following:

• find a translator, a Palestinian woman who knew Bulgarian
• locate a Russian Orthodox priest to preside at the graveside
• provide doll clothing to dress the baby
• arrange for funeral services through the generosity of a local funeral home
• arrange for a gravesite and cemetery services through the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
• provide a casket and flowers
• order a grave marker, a gift from the Jewish community.

This story didn’t end at the cemetery. After their baby was buried, the parents came back to the Baby Corner to express their gratitude and return the car seat and other items that the Baby Corner had provided. They wanted to pass them along to another needy family. Within minutes, a social worker had claimed the car seat to take to a family with a newborn at the hospital.

A WOMAN WHO WAS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT arrived in Seattle after fleeing domestic violence in the Southwest, leaving everything behind. With her was her three-year-old daughter, who had been abused. A counselor working with the family told the Baby Corner that finding the right doll to replace the little girl’s favorite doll would be vital to her recovery. The Baby Corner provided a doll, wrapped in a receiving blanket and with a change of clothes, that delighted the little girl.


When the need is immediate, the Baby Corner is there. Thank you to all our donors, whose compassionate support makes a difference to young families like these.