Ladybugs are a go-go!

What’s small, red, and helps out families at hospital? A ladybug-emblazoned sleeping bag for babies designed by Merino Kids to help fundraise for Starship Foundation children, such as the stunning premmie twins pictured left, Ruby and Amy…

What’s small, red, and helps out families at hospital? A ladybug-emblazoned sleeping bag for babies designed by Merino Kids to help fundraise for Starship Foundation, that’s what.

The stunning premmie twins pictured left, Ruby and Amy, are faces of the global campaign for the new Ladybug Go Go Bag. Ruby and Amy are two gorgeous examples of how the money raised will help. Ruby and Amy Davis are now healthy one-year old twin girls, but spent their first four months of life in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The limited edition of Merino Kids Go Go Bag has been designed for the Starship Foundation by Merino Kids’ owner Amie Nilsson – herself a textile designer before having babies and discovering a gap in the market for a merino sleep bag – and the rest is history. The internationally-successful, award-winning product is made from 100% natural fibres; superfine merino wool and 100% cotton and will prevent babies from waking due to a drop in temperature after wriggling out of their blankets and getting tangled in their sheets.

Ladybugs are considered an emblem of luck and protection. “It is believed that when a ladybug lands on you, your luck will increase and your wish will come true. I hope that the same applies for the ladybugs on the new Go Go Bag” says Aime.

A percentage of this $169 Go Go Bag will go to Starship, and they hope to sell a couple of thousand of the ladybug bags, which would contribute over thirty thousand to the foundation.

So buy one for your newborn, or for a baby shower gift, or for your under two year old – just buy one! And we’re sure that some luck and protection will go out to help out babies like Ruby and Amy.

Available instore from 15 March 2011. For stockist info visit their website www.merinokids.co.nz or call toll free 0800 124 646.

Megan Robinson, 10 February 2011.