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Click Your Knitting Needles Together to Prevent Infant Abuse

By Sponsored by Advocates for Children August 21, 2014
Advocates for Children is looking for help in increasing the awareness of the "Period of PURPLE Crying" in infants. By providing parents with information about this often frustrating time in an infant's development, they raise awareness that it is a stage and hope to prevent infant abuse.

PURPLE Crying stands for:

P: Peak of Crying - Your baby may cry more each week. The most at 2 months, then less at 3-5 months.
U: Unexpected - Crying can come and go and you don't know why.
R: Resists Soothing - Your baby may not stop crying no matter what you try.
P: Pain-Like Face - A crying baby may look like they are in pain, even when they are not.
L: Long Lasting - Crying can last as much as 5 hours a day or more.
E: Evening - Your baby may cry more in the late afternoon and evening.

You can help to raise awareness of PURPLE Crying! Knit or crochet caps using any newborn baby cap pattern. Caps should be made using any shade of soft, baby-friendly purple yarn, be at least 50% purple in color, and free of straps, strings or other potential choking and strangling hazards. (For baby boys, please remember to include blues, browns, grays and other “boy friendly” colors in your cap designs.)

Your knitted or crocheted caps will be given to baby boys and girls in November and December to help educate parents about the Period of PURPLE Crying, a normal, but frustrating period of increased crying all infants experience in the first few weeks and months after birth. 

Knit your PURPLE newborn baby caps, as many as you like, to be received no later than October 1, 2014 and make arrangements to deliver caps by calling or emailing Dori Galgovitch at Advocates for Children at 207-783-3990 or info@advocatesforchildren.net.

For more information and resources, including patterns for caps, tools to spread the word, and FAQs visit: CLICKforBabies.org