OPERATION SLEEP

Operation Sleep aims to support our veterans and active military families by providing free, overnight care to parents whose babies are born when a parent is deployed, wounded or deceased. Many newborns are born when one parent is serving, and others are born to active military families and veterans where a parent is wounded or has passed away.

Care is provided by a highly qualified Mother/Baby Nurse (RN/LPN) or Newborn Caregiver.

Overnight baby care benefits families with direct and positive results:

1. Exhausted “single” parents receive relief, allowing them to stay healthy.
2. Healthy recuperation from birth.
3. Evidence -based education to make safe and healthy decisions.
4. Members of our military receive a tangible thank-you from the civilian community.

Mission Sleep is the 501c3 non-profit sister of Let Mommy Sleep (LMS). LMS began in 2010 as a very simple service: caregivers tend to newborns overnight while parents sleep and mothers recover from childbirth. Though the creation of the business was a result the founder’s own traumatic birth experience, the concept is not a new one. What is new however, is that once regarded as a historical norm, postpartum support is now inaccessible to many. Families are geographically spread out, tied to work or fall through the cracks of health insurance to justify in-home healthcare.

After seeing the incredible positive impact overnight newborn care has on families, Operation: Sleep was launched in 2012. Military and first responder families often experience the 3 hurdles of family being far away, spouses unable to help and no social support. The difference is that they experience these challenges because *they are serving all of us.*

Major Accomplishments
- Operation Sleep earned formal bipartisan support from then Governor Tim Kaine (D) of Virginia and Del. Richard Anderson (R-VA), Chair of the General Assembly Military & Veterans Caucus.
- We have also received a welfare grant by the Fort Belvoir Spouses Association in Virginia.
- Invited to and attended the White House Summit for Working Families
- National and local media appearances on FOXNews and Washington DC local affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS.
- Letters of Support from the INOVA Health System and the George Mason University Center for Health Workforce

Like many charities, Operation Sleep could not weather the effects of COVID and closed in 2020 but we are now officially re-instated and operating as of August 2022. We are currently seeking grants and helping those families in need with the funds we've raised from individual donors. We know the charity creates better health outcomes and we want to thank those who serve all of us.