Monthly news & updates
Special Delivery!
Welcome to this month's edition of “Special Delivery”, the monthly newsletter from Miracle Babies! 
Impact
March Impact

  • Transportation Assistance Program logged nearly 5,500K miles and provided 245 rides to parents with hospitalized babies.
  • Delivered 107 care packages across the region. Care packages provide resources, care, and comfort items to parents.
  • My Brain & My Baby provides weekly and individual mental health support via telemedicine. Learn more
  • Distributed 10,550 diapers
  • Hosted 2 Miracle Hours for parents
Opportunities
Be a real-life superhero!
Join us Sunday, May 7th, 2023, 7 AM - 11 AM
NTC Park @ Liberty Station 2455 Cushing Rd.
San Diego, CA 92106

The Miracle Babies 5K walk/run is a FUN event that brings awareness to our cause and benefits our essential programming initiatives. The course is perfect for all runners, walkers, fur babies, and strollers of all levels. Festivities at the 5K include a KIDS ZONE, Merchant and Resource Fair, Food trucks, Doggie Dash for some friendly fur baby competition, Diaper Dash race for kids ages two and under, exotic cars, the opportunity to donate blood, Superheroes, and much more!

Not in San Diego? No problem! Register as a virtual participant.
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Thank you to Las Patronas for funding support towards the purchase of our next vehicle.
Las Patronas is committed to providing financial assistance to nonprofit organizations in San Diego County that provide valuable community services in the areas of health, education, social services, and cultural arts, and to continuing a tradition of service to enhance the quality of life in our community.)
Thank you, Sycuan for your sponsorship support at our 15th Annual Miracle Babies 5K! To Sycuan, giving back to San Diego is a top priority both as an organization and through their Team Members. They are proud to be a dedicated partner to numerous local charities ranging from social and health services to the arts and the environment. Their mission is simple, to improve the community in any way!
Meet Team Berkley! Team Berkley has been walking and raising funds in memory of their daughter Berkley. Team Berkley has raised over $88,000 to help critically ill babies in the NICU. 
Mom Brooke shares, "Instead of spending 9 months preparing to bring a baby home, we spent 9 months preparing for a long NICU stay. Unfortunately, our daughter lost her fight against this devastating birth defect after just 2 days." 
This year Berkley would have been 10 years old. Let's help this phenomenal family get to 100K in honor and memory of Berkley. To learn more, join Team Berkley or donate click here.


Meet Marelys Padilla! Marelys is a proud Latina and mother of 3, a Bi-Lingual (English/Español) Licensed Clinical Social Worker certified in Perinatal Mental Health committed to empowering individuals and couples as they navigate stress which is inhibiting joy and peace during any phase of their journey through parenthood❤️ Thank you Marelys for all you do in our community and for our My Brain & My Baby Program participants.
Chapter Spotlights


Our first Diaper Distribution in El Monte, California was a success! Thank you to our amazing sponsors the El Monte School District, Joy of Life Surrogacy, Los Angeles Food Bank, and our volunteers. Together we successfully distributed over 10K diapers. Click here for highlights. Donate Diapers
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Miracle Babies, Executive Director, Marianela delivered March's Care Packages to UCI in Orange County. She was happy to meet the new NICU social worker Shawna and reconnect with NICU Nurse Case Manager Debbie. Sponsor a care package


San Diego diaper distributions will be moving back to National City. The next diaper distribution is Saturday, April 15th at Heart Revolution Church. Thank you to our volunteers and our sponsors, San Diego FoodBank, Dalton Toyota, Rent A Center, AMR, and Heart Revolution Church. Donate Diapers


Join us Saturday, October 14th at the Belly Up in Solana Beach as we Boogie4Babies...