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Comfort and love Saanich mom launches Hearts for Hannah crochet group to support families in hospital, and to honour baby who died at six days old Kyle Slavin
grieving family or a family waiting on a child in surgery, and going to the locker and picking a quilt and coming back is Jessica Lambrick and Isaac Miller left something nice for the parents, someSaanich for BC Children’s Hospital in thing that brings them a bit of comfort.” Lambrick is now following in the lovNovember while Lambrick was 39 weeks pregnant. The couple returned home a ing footsteps of the Pumpkin Seeds with her own blanket-making group, Hearts for few short weeks later with no baby. Hannah Miller was just six days old Hannah. “The quilt had a really big impact on when she died of a congenital lung defect, alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalign- us. So I wanted to give back by crochetment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV). ing,” Lambrick says. “I got together nine Fewer than 200 infants worldwide have women in my life who all feel a really deep ever been diagnosed with the rare dis- connection and love for Hannah, and we order that makes it hard for the lungs to all together dedicate our time and talent and yarn, for other famiexchange oxygen and “When we relocated to lies and other babies that carbon dioxide. fought hard like Hannah.” What Lambrick and Vancouver we didn’t have Lambrick, 29, learned Miller did come home with, though, was a any of our possessions. But to crochet while in university, and she and a friend quilt, handmade by vol- we had this (blanket) for sold handmade dish unteers and donated to Hannah.” clothes at craft fairs to BC Children’s. - Jessica Lambrick make a little bit of money. “It was really imporThe goal is to donate at tant that we had that blanket from the Pumpkin Seeds. When least 100 blankets to BC Children’s Hoswe relocated to Vancouver we didn’t have pital on Dec. 4, 2014 – what would have any of our possessions. But we had this been Hannah’s first birthday. So far the for Hannah,” Lambrick says. “It was some- group has made 33 blankets. While Lambrick doesn’t have space in thing to hold when we left the hospital without her. It really had a huge impact her living room to fit more crocheters at the monthly meeting, anyone interested on us.” The Pumpkin Seeds is a group of 22 in donating yarn or crocheted blankets to women based out of Vancouver that has assist Hearts for Hannah would be greatly been quilting and donating out of a love of appreciated, she says. “This is just another way that we’re giving for more than 17 years. “It’s something we really enjoy doing. honouring Hannah,” Lambrick says. “We Everyone in the group gets great satis- live our lives to the fullest now for her, faction from giving,” says Pumpkin Seed and this is just another way of giving back founding member Ione MacLennan, a for- in her memory.” Anybody interested in making a donamer Victoria resident who learned to quilt while living here in the 1980s. She now tion to Hearts for Hannah can contact Lambrick at jessica_lambrick@hotmail. lives in Vancouver. “The nurses have said to us that some- com. editor@saanichnews.com times they need to take a break from a
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Jessica Lambrick sits in her living room SEE with a pile of blankets while holding a picture of her daughter, Hannah Miller, who passed away last December at just six days old. Lambrick and a group of women, calling themselves Hearts for Hannah, are crocheting blankets for BC Children’s Hospital, and plan to donate them to other families and children who are dealing with tough medical situations.
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