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DiYVR: Knit and Crochet for the BABIES!

DiYVR is a weekly spotlight on all things handmade, done-by-oneself, crafted and hacked around Vancouver, featuring profiles of makers, event announcements, exhibits and general DIY fun.

DiYVR is a weekly spotlight on all things handmade, done-by-oneself, crafted and hacked around Vancouver, featuring profiles of makers, event announcements, exhibits and general DIY fun. Know someone or something we should cover? Email me!

When we picked our son up at the hospital the day we adopted him, we were inundated with information. Along with being shown how to bathe, feed, diaper and generally handle a newborn, we were given all manner of printed materials, including a DVD about purple crying.

Turned out our kid is one of the chillest babies we know – a quality we never take for granted. But it was still good to have the information about that period of inconsolable crying some babies experience – crying so hard that the baby's face turns purple. It's the kind of crying that sometimes leads exhausted parents to shake their baby, which is why there's a campaign to raise awareness about the fact that the crying is not abnormal, that parents who feel helpless against it are not alone, and that there are things you can do as a parent to handle the stress of an inconsolable infant.

And now there's a North America-wide crafts campaign called Click for Babies to further raise awareness and put an end to shaken baby syndrome. The goal is to collect enough handmade purple hats that every baby born in November in participating hospitals will receive one.

Participating is as simple as making a hat in a newborn size in super-soft, machine-washable purple yarn, and sending or dropping it off by 26th October, 2011. Click for Babies has more info about newborn head sizes, hat specs, etc.

Vancouver Drop-off Locations

Gina Brown’s Yarn

3424 West Broadway

604-734-4840

Three Bags Full

4458 Main Street

604-874-9665

Send-in Address

ATTN: Claire Yambao, Provincial Program Coordinator

Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome BC

BC Children’s Hospital

4480 Oak Street, Room K1-201

Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4