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Our cradles are uniquely designed for families to hold and bond with their babies
Bridget's Cradles supports hospitals nationwide by providing handmade knit and crocheted cradles to offer to families who lose their baby in the second trimester of pregnancy.
Give the Gift of Comfort to Your Grieving Patients
bereavement resource
Since 2015, we have donated over 250,000 cradles and memory keepsakes to hospitals across the nation. It is our heartfelt honor to provide our hand knit and crocheted cradles, offering a place of love and dignity for precious babies in Heaven while bringing comfort to their grieving families.
Our hospital partners
We're Proudly Offering cradles to over 1,600 hospitals in all 50 states
OB Offices
but our cradles and memory keepsakes can also be offered to bereaved families experiencing loss within other units at a hospital.
We primarily donate our cradles directly to Labor & Delivery units at hospitals
Who we support
Labor and delivery units are the primary hospital departments we support because this is where second trimester losses most often occur. Our cradles are specifically designed to meet the needs of families delivering babies born into Heaven during this gestational time. We believe it is essential that cradles are available immediately—at the bedside—so grieving families can hold and honor their baby with dignity and love in those heartbreaking first moments of loss.
Labor & Delivery Units
We also support NICU units that care for premature or medically fragile babies, particularly those born around 24–26 weeks gestation. Our largest cradle sizes are appropriate for babies who may not survive, providing a way for families to hold and cherish their child with tenderness and care. For babies who are too large for a cradle or for whom a cradle may not be needed, we offer our Memory Keepsakes—handmade knit or crocheted squares or hearts—paired with a booklet of our support resources to comfort families during and after their loss.
Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)
We support emergency departments and surgical units by providing our smallest cradles for families experiencing early second trimester miscarriage in the ED, or for those undergoing a D&C who wish to keep their baby's remains. In these unexpected and often traumatic situations, having a cradle can offer families a respectful way to hold and honor their baby. For cases where a cradle may not be needed or possible (for first trimester losses), we also provide Memory Keepsakes—knit or crocheted hearts and squares—along with a support resource booklet to offer comfort and compassionate care in the midst of sudden loss.
Emergency Departments & Surgical Units
We support funeral homes by providing both our cradles and memory keepsakes for families who did not receive a cradle at the hospital but wish to have one for burial or memorial purposes. Our cradles offer a sacred and dignified way to lay a baby to rest, while the keepsakes—knit or crocheted hearts and squares—serve as meaningful tokens of remembrance and include access to our support resources. We also supply hospital brochures to funeral homes so they can help connect local hospital staff and care providers with our ministry’s services.
Funeral Homes
While we do not provide our cradles directly to OB offices—since we want them available at the hospital for delivery—we do support OB practices by offering our Memory Keepsakes. These knit or crocheted hearts and squares can be given to families at the time of hearing the devastating news of no heartbeat, or later during a postpartum checkup following a loss. We also supply OB offices with our hospital brochures, equipping them to inform their delivering hospitals about our nonprofit and ensuring cradles are available where and when families need them most.
OB Offices
We support EMS teams by providing our cradles for use in emergency situations when a baby is delivered traumatically at home or en route to the hospital. In these heartbreaking and often chaotic circumstances, having a cradle on hand offers a compassionate and dignified way to care for the baby and support the grieving family. Sadly, we’ve heard devastating stories of babies being placed in medical waste bags during transport. Our goal is to ensure that no family experiences such trauma, and that every baby is treated with the respect and tenderness they deserve.
EMS Providers / Ambulances
It is our desire to reach as many bereaved families with cradles as we can by donating our cradles to hospitals across the country.
Cradles are always provided to hospitals free of charge
OUR SIMPLE PROCESS
Hospital staff—such as L&D nurses, directors, social workers, or bereavement team members—can request a donation by filling out the form on our website below.
Have a staff member request cradles.
We’ll prepare a custom donation based on your hospital’s needs and ship it within 1–2 weeks.
You’ll receive a tracking notification once it’s on the way.
You’ll receive a confirmation email after submitting your request.
You can begin offering cradles to families right away, providing comfort and dignity in their time of loss. We’d also be grateful if you shared a photo of your staff with the cradles—it means so much to us.
Begin offering cradles to grieving patients.
Have questions about requesting or receiving cradles for your hospital? We’re here to help with answers to the most common inquiries below.
Questions
Please request the number of cradles and memory keepsakes your hospital anticipates needing for one year. To help estimate, we suggest reviewing your hospital’s fetal demise data from the past 12 months. Some smaller hospitals may need as few as 5 per year, while larger hospitals may request 100 or more.
If you’re unsure, don’t worry—we can always send additional donations at any time. Our goal is to ensure every family receives support in their time of loss.
The cradles are always free of charge. Our organization covers all shipping costs. There is no cost at all for hospitals to receive a donation of our cradles.
Your hospital will receive your donation of cradles within 1-2 weeks. We will email you the tracking number once they have been shipped to you.
Yes, you can specify exactly which sizes or colors of cradles you prefer on our Hospital Donation Request form. Otherwise, we will provide your hospital with various sizes and colors. Our cradles are always made with pastel and neutral-colored yarns, and we will never send you dark, bright, or inappropriate colors for a grieving family.
Unfortunately, we do not provide our patterns for individual or local use. We believe we can accomplish more together than on our own. We have hundreds of volunteers from across the country committed to our mission. Each volunteer sends their cradles to our headquarters for inspection, completion, and distribution.
We've structured our organization in this way so that we can always distribute the exact quantities, sizes, and colors to all of our recipient hospitals on an ongoing, long-term basis. We also inspect each and every cradle for appropriate yarns and colors, dimensions, sturdiness, and cleanliness so that hospitals receive the highest quality of cradles for their bereaved patients.
Our cradles are always free of charge, and we ship them to you at no cost. Hospitals can request a re-order donation of cradles at any time.
Lastly, our organization is committed to providing hope-filled resources and support to bereaved families long after they leave the hospital. We offer support groups (online and in person), a monthly podcast, online community groups, helpful e-books, and so much more. Bridget's Cradles has a strong community for bereaved parents to find hope and healing in their grieving journey.
Yes, all of our cradles have a cross charm on them. Our Christian faith is the foundation of our mission and the purpose behind our work as a nonprofit organization. Since our founding, a cross charm has been affixed to every Bridget's cradle donated to a hospital just as it was on Bridget's original cradle. It is representative of the hope we have in Jesus to see our babies again in Heaven.
With that being said, the cradles are free gifts that can be offered to bereaved families of any faith or background. We understand that some families who accept a cradle for their baby may prefer to remove the cross charm on the cradle. We do not seek to push our beliefs on anyone as we desire to respectfully comfort families while at the same time honoring our faith.
It is our policy that any receiving family (or hospital staff caring for them) may remove the cross if they so choose. The cross is easy to detach because it is not permanently affixed through the yarn, rather it is simply attached with a small stitch of thread. Our only stipulation is that we ask that the Bridget's Cradles tag not be removed so that the family knows who the gift came from and can access support resources after they leave the hospital.
We believe that our policy is a respectful compromise that is accommodating to everyone. Thank you for your understanding.