Special pillows at All Children's Hospital mean so much more than a soft place for new moms and babies to lay their heads.
A volunteer and her little helpers are providing extra comfort to these patients with their kindness.
Joyce Lagor heads up an effort that involves Junior Girl Scouts from from West Coast Florida Troop 1501, volunteers from Maria Manor Nursing Care Center and a group that calls themselves the Sew and Sews.
Sewing is what they all have in common. They make and deliver special pillows and blankets to the hospital once a month.
"They're shaped like a horseshoe," Lagor said of the pillows. "They go around a woman's waist, and she can put the baby on it to position it for nursing."
The pillows have other uses, too.
"They are used for the intensive care babies who have tubes in their nose and oxygen and so forth, and they prop them on the pillow so they can breathe easier,"Lagor said.
Lagor has been leading the project for the last three years. She began when she learned there was a need for the pillows and blankets.
She is involved in countless volunteer organizations - amazingly, while dealing with a brain tumor, cancer and the need for a pacemaker in just the past year.
Every visit to All Children's pays her back with great joy.
"When you give, you get so much back," she said. "It is such a blessing. Such a blessing."