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Nurse Kristi Davis of Tennessee knits a baby cap. |
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Babies will Warm to Tennessee Orange
For 20 years Kristi Davis, a registered nurse, has worked with new mothers in Memphis, Tennessee, on how best to care for their newborns and themselves. So when an e-mail arrived about Save the Children’s Caps to the Capital program, she knew just what to do.
“I’m a relatively new knitter,” she said, “but I thought this was a nice and simple thing I could do to help save a life. Surely I can do that.”
In her parenting classes at the Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Davis tells new moms to be sure to keep their newborns warm even though Memphis is hardly the Arctic. “It’s really important,” she said. “I had no idea until I read those statistics on how many newborns die all the time."
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Kristi's orange Tennessee (or Texas) baby cap.
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A longtime quilter, Davis “always thought knitting was too hard,” but she took it up a year ago when her older daughter left for the University of Tennessee. “I thought I needed to learn how to do something new,” she said.
She made her simple cap bright orange in honor of U-Tenn’s colors of orange and white, and also because those are also the colors of the University of Texas in President Bush’s home state, she said.
In her note to the president, Kristi observed that Americans struggle with health issues, “but our struggles pale in comparison with the sheer numbers dying worldwide. This little Tennessee (or Texas) orange cap is my way of communicating the need and trying to help.”
Learn more about the Caps to the Capital project.
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