Kim BrattainFounder/ CEO, Kim Brattain Media · Award-winning Corporate and Documentary Film Producer

Baby Bundles

1 Mar 2017 · 3 min

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The video showcases the Baby Bundles program in Charlotte, a community initiative that assembles "baby shower bags" containing essential infant items—blankets, onesies, pajamas, bibs, burp cloths, socks, hats, a book, and a toy—and distributes them to new, often low‑income mothers. Three volunteer mothers who have each lost a child describe how turning their grief into service helps mend their hearts and honor their children’s legacy. Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) who work with first‑time, low‑income mothers explain the tangible difference the bundles make for families, fostering caregiver‑infant bonding crucial for cognitive and physical development. The program’s scale is highlighted: 850 bundles were given in the current year with a goal of 1,000 for the next year, reaching across the Charlotte community. Recipients share personal stories of how the donated clothing kept their newborns warm and enabled them to provide care despite economic hardship. Overall, the video blends testimonial narratives with program metrics to illustrate both the practical impact and the emotional healing derived from the Baby Bundles effort.

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You guys are so important to Baby Bundles.
We're making baby blankets.
We take these beautiful blankets and we put them in this awesome bag and we give them to new mommies who've had babies in our community. Someone described it as a baby shower bag. It is just a bag of all the essentials that a new mom needs. It is clothes, everything from onesies to pajamas to bibs and burp cloths to socks to an infant hat. It also has a book and a toy. When you lose a child, it really— something in you dies, truly. I mean, really, your heart, just a piece of your heart dies. And it was just a way to start to mend mend that little piece in my heart and also to keep my son's legacy alive.
We're 3 mothers who lost children, which is— we're part of a club you don't want to be in, basically.
We really wanted to do something that we could get into the community and help other mothers that were having children and turn that sadness that we were experiencing into something that was happy and something that could benefit other people.
As LPNs, we have the privilege of working with first-time, low-income mothers. I wish I could bring you to every single mom that I bring a baby bundle to because it does make a difference to them, and not only them, their whole family.
This year we will alone give 850. Our goal next year is 1,000 bundles, and so we really are all over the Charlotte community.
We know that first year of life is so important to have the bond between the caregiver and the, and the infant established for long-term cognitive growth, physical health. And so Baby Bundles really serves to fill the need to support those families in economic hardship. Many people don't believe in miracles. But I do. I'm lucky to receive this blessing from you all. Before I came to you guys, I was 2 weeks from having my child with nothing to give him. With the clothing that you donate, it helps me to keep my child warm.
Thank you. Like I said, to be able to help somebody else through the life of your child is very humbling and it's very rewarding. It's just very powerful. It's very meaningful.