TTMF’s “Wild Family Event” at the Beardsley Zoo
The Tiny Miracles Foundation, Inc. (TTMF) hosted another family friendly gathering “A Wild Family Event” at The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, CT on September 29, 2013, to support their programs and services helping premature babies and their families throughout Fairfield County. The event was attended by over 450 parents and children, and the event was an overwhelming success!!
Guests enjoyed private access to the zoo and viewing of all the animal exhibits, carousel rides, face painting, and crafts. Dinner was available by purchase at the specialty food trucks that were brought in for this event. Food trucks included MeltMobile, Vanchetta, Chez Lenard of Ridgefield and Mister Softee of CT.
The Tiny Miracles Foundation (TTMF) is a volunteer-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive support and assistance to families with premature infants in the greater Fairfield County, Connecticut area, and to helping our local neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) provide the best possible care for premature patients and their families. TTMF strives to improve the lives and outcomes of preterm babies and their families, and addresses a community need that is virtually unmet by any other local, regional or national organization.
Founded in 2004 by two local mothers of severely premature twins, The Tiny Miracles Foundation offers vital support to families facing the crisis of a premature birth. Both of these mothers felt terrified and isolated as they rode the emotional “preemie roller coaster” coping with their fragile babies’ tremendous medical complications and illnesses. While the hospitals provided excellent medical care, the mothers found very little emotional or practical support geared toward helping families with premature babies. From these mothers’ difficult experiences came the birth of TTMF. Through their network of other preemie mothers they had met during their NICU journeys, they created our organization to ensure that no parent of a baby born too early need to face the crisis of a premature birth alone.
Today, The Tiny Miracles Foundation assists over 1,200 local families per year throughout Fairfield County through programs at our four partner hospitals in Stamford, Norwalk, Bridgeport, and Danbury and services to the community at large. These services are delivered by our over one hundred dedicated volunteers and a small support staff. Support provided by TTMF volunteers who have personally experienced the premature birth of a baby, the complications that arise, the challenges families face, and in sad cases, the loss of a precious tiny miracle, is invaluable to these families and is one of the many things that makes TTMF so special.
All proceeds from the “A Wild Family Event” will benefit The Tiny Miracles Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to helping families of premature babies in Fairfield County. Early sponsors include: Village Pediatrics; Broder & Orland, LLC; Kelly Associates Real Estate; Morgan Stanley; Dr. Robert Zembroski; Milford Pediatric Group; Christopher Noland Salon and Beauty Spa; Stamford Pediatric Associates; Pediatric Healthcare Associates; Darien Pediatric Associates, LLC; and Pediatric Urology Associates, P.C. Our lead media sponsor is Serendipity.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions. To learn more about The Tiny Miracles Foundation and their support programs, please go to www.ttmf.org or call our office at 203-202-9714.
