Pearl’s Memory Babies gifts customized baby dolls to individuals with Alzheimer’s & dementia living in care facilities, presenting each gift with compassion and care. When Sandy's Mother-in-law, Pearl, was stricken with Alzheimer's, the only thing she and her husband Wayne found to soothe her was a baby doll. Pearl's response and love for the baby was so amazing that Sandy & Wayne later gifted "ba
bies" to other memory patients in Pearl's facility and were happily surprised at the similar reactions from many of them as well. To honor Pearl in the years after her passing, as a Christmas gift to one another, Sandy & Wayne would visit a memory care facility gifting more "babies". In 2018, Sandy's good friend Shannon had been expressing to Sandy her own mother's distress, caused by Alzheimer's. Sandy asked Shannon if she could give Shannon a "baby" for her mother and her mother's room-mate. Shannon accepted.....and when she described her mother's and her room-mate's amazing reactions, Wayne and Sandy knew they wanted to provide babies for the rest of the residents of the facility. Sandy asked Shannon to accompany her to help her with that special delivery that Valentine's Day, 2018. Shannon took photos as Sandy lovingly hand-delivered each baby to each new parent. The day after their visit, the facility requested that Shannon share the photos and videos taken on Facebook so the patients' families could see them - and that post, as they say, went "viral". Sandy and Shannon were absolutely humbled and shocked by the outpouring of media coverage, interviews, and requests for how to help that followed. And Wayne continues to join alongside whenever he can!
