I'm going to give my friend both hats before she has the baby and ask her to take them both to hospital when she goes to have the baby then which ever she doesn't need, I'd really love it if she gave it to the special care baby unit.
When Jack was born, he was poorly. Really poorly. He wasn't an early baby though and weighed 8lb 3oz so when they put a hat on him and tied breathing tubes to it, the hat they put on him was way too small. When I think back to then, one of the images I have in my head is that stupid yellow, too small hat. I know someone made it but they made it for a premmie so it was too small.
When he was transferred to a different hospital for more specialised treatment, the nurses couldn't take it off for days because he was too unstable to remove the tubes and while the hat remained, it scared his head; he now has three bald marks on the back of his head from it.
So I'm thinking other knitters might want to join me in doing this. Its quite simple, every time you make a hat for a new baby, make two newborn sized and gift one to the hospital.
My only problem is that I have to knit three because someone has pinched the first one I made....
4 comments:
That's a fantastic idea and something I'd definitely do :)
Absolutely brilliant idea Nic! xx
Cool idea!
What a brilliant idea. The requests I've seen always seem to be for preemie hats and of course children are also born at full term under difficult circumstances too. I'll definitely be doing this, in fact I have two here, one with a knotted top which could easily be untied to make access for tubes.
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