For the second consecutive year, the Geary Community Hospital Auxiliary donated $800 to the hospital’s Take Home Sleep Sack Program, which is facilitated through Delivering Change: Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies. Through that program every newborn in the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Center at GCH goes home with a HALO Sleep Sack.

This wearable blanket is used in more than 1400 hospitals nationwide to promote safe sleep. It replaces loose blankets that can cover a baby’s face and interfere with breathing. It also helps babies sleep better because it’s a warm, cuddly blanket that baby can’t kick off.

Currently, a sleep sack is used with every newborn during their stay at the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Center. Each mother receives education on safe sleep along with the new sleep sack to take home.

“This program gives families one of the proper ‘tools’ to create a safe sleep environment for their new baby and we are so grateful to the Auxiliary for their continued support of this very important program,” said Jill Nelson, Program Director for Delivering Change.