Alexandra's House is a charitable perinatal-infant hospice house and refuge for abandoned or neglected babies. Our first focus is to provide spiritual, grief and practical support to families pregnant with terminally ill babies and for families whose babies are diagnosed later with a terminal illness. We attend medical visits, develop compassionate and comprehensive birth plans, go to labor and delivery, maintain vigils through the babies' death, bathe and dress the babies, and participate in funerals and in long-term bereavement care. While “invisible” support could be done by a multidisciplinary team alone, our calling includes a home in which to house live-in staff, who choose a life of poverty so funds go towards the needs of the families, and our ministerial activities. Thus, if a baby survives dismissal from the hospital, the family and child can come to Alexandra's House for support through the baby’s life and death, and will not experience the feeling of abandonment Alexandra’s family felt.

The vision includes the outgrowth of a religious community who will live and pray together, and whose apostolic activities are the works of Alexandra's House.

We are the well suited "high touch" complement to "high tech" obstetrical care.