Project Sweet Peas donates swings to Women & Infants

Corin Nava, co-founder of the national nonprofit Project Sweet Peas, stands recently with a donation of Mamaroo swings for infants for the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.                    / Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Corin Nava, co-founder of the national nonprofit Project Sweet Peas, stands recently with a donation of Mamaroo swings for infants for the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. / Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE – Project Sweet Peas, a national nonprofit whose volunteers support infants in intensive care, recently donated five Mamaroo swing sets for infants to the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital.
The swings for infants mimic five different styles of rocking electronically. They will be used in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Project Sweet Peas’ volunteers, through personal experience, provide support to families with infants in intensive care and those who have experienced pregnancy and the death of an infant. Incorporated in Pennsylvania, the nonprofit is based in Warwick, according to its website.
Corin Nava, a former Women & Infants NICU parent and volunteer, is a co-founder of the Project Sweet Peas organization and helped coordinate the donation.
Nava is the division leader for Gabriel’s Gift, which was started in memory of her son, Gabriel Nava, who spent 55 days in the NICU before dying from a rare birth defect. Nava was also recently the recipient a $5,000 third prize award for her work with Project Sweet Peas from the Kraft Family and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation.
“Donations to our NICU are incredibly impactful to our patients and their families,” said Mary Beth Taub, a registered nurse and NICU nurse manager. “The work Corin and her team at Project Sweet Peas do for our NICU and units across the region is incredibly valuable to the care of preterm infants.”
Women & Infants operates one of the nation’s largest single-family-room NICUs where the latest technology and highly skilled specialists care for babies born prematurely or sick. Women & Infants has been named a 2014-15 U.S. News best children’s hospital in neonatology.

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