Sweet Babies STL: Supporting mothers with newborns

12/15/2025

12/09/2025

🎄✨ Give the Gift of a Brighter First Christmas — Support Sweet Babies STL! ✨🎄

This holiday season, help a St. Louis newborn secure the essentials necessary for a safe and healthy start.

We are Sweet Babies STL, a 100% volunteer-led organization housed in SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital, working to ensure that every single donated dollar goes directly into a newborn care package for an underserved St. Louis family.

🌟 Our Mission:
To make sure every baby’s first year is filled with safety, comfort, and dignity — because a child’s earliest days shape their whole future.

🎁 Why These Essentials Truly Are Holiday Miracles:

• A safe sleep space protects infants and reduces SIDS risk.
• Diaper support eases holiday-season stress and strengthens parent-baby bonding.
• Meeting basic needs helps mothers breastfeed with confidence.
• Lower parental stress means better infant sleep and development.
• Having the essentials to build predictable routines boosts a baby’s brain development and wellbeing.

This Christmas, you can be the reason a new St. Louis family feels hope, relief, and joy.

💛 Give a gift that lasts long after the holidays.
👉 Donate here: https://www.sweetbabies.org/donate/

11/29/2025

https://www.sweetbabies.org/donate/

Sweet Babies STL has grown from helping 10 families a month to nearly 70—providing mothers with safe sleep education and newborns with safe sleep essentials to help prevent SIDS, seasonally and age-appropriate clothing, blankets, diapers, books, and exceptionally crafted handmade items. We work to ensure every child has a chance to a healthy future. This holiday season, we need your support. We accept monetary and gently used item donations for infants up to 18 months. Help us ensure every sweet baby starts life with the essentials. We hope the babies we serve will grow up to be healthy and able to 💛

11/28/2025

🌟 Welcome to Sweet Babies STL! 🌟
We are excited to share that after more than 15 years of serving families across the St. Louis community, we are beginning a new chapter — and that starts right here on our brand-new page.

For those who have been with us from the beginning, and for those just discovering our mission, Sweet Babies STL is dedicated to ensuring that every newborn in our community has a safe, healthy, and supported start to life. Over the years, we have been honored to provide thousands of families with newborn essentials, safe sleep education, and secure sleep spaces to help protect our littlest neighbors during their most vulnerable moments.

As we transition to this new page, we want to celebrate the compassion, generosity, and volunteer spirit that have carried us forward for a decade and a half. From the countless donors who have filled our shelves, to the volunteers who have packed bundles with love, to the families who have trusted us during moments of need — you are the heart of Sweet Babies STL.

This new space will allow us to connect more easily with the community, share updates, highlight urgent needs, celebrate our partners, and continue growing the impact of our work. We hope you’ll follow along, invite your friends, and help us spread the word so we can support even more families in the years ahead.

Thank you for being part of our journey — past, present, and future.

❤️ Here’s to the next chapter with Sweet Babies STL! ❤️

10/13/2025

👶 Sweet Babies is a 100% volunteer group providing essential baby items to families in need through hospital referrals. We deliver love in every bag—over 30 items per baby! Donate new or gently used goods to help us serve 70+ families each month. 💕

https://www.sweetbabies.org/donate/