Brave Gowns

Brave Gowns Have Changed the Game in Hospital Wear & Patient Care! We are proudly made in the USA We couldn't do it without your support and purchases. Thank you!

Since 2015, over 850,000 Brave Gowns & have been worn by patients in Children's Hospitals worldwide. Since 2015, over 450,000 and have been worn by patients in Children's Hospitals worldwide. Brave Gowns have been featured on Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Huffington Post, The Talk, The Doctors and numerous other media outlets. During the pandemic, we've put over 300,000 masks on healthcare workers, essential workers, bio tech labs, police officers, firefighters, inmates and homeless shelters. We were also able to gift over $25,000 to families with a child going through medical treatment. We are and always have been made in the USA. What is a Brave Gown? A Brave Gown is a gown that a child will wear when going through a treatment that scares them, a horrible shot, a spinal tap, an MRI, an x-ray, a long hospital stay or just a moment that they need to feel BRAVE! One of the biggest reasons kids love superheroes is the sense of control and power they have on the world. For superheroes, anything is possible. We want children in the hospital fighting even the toughest disease, to put forth their best fight and conquer what battle they're fighting. Whether a child's favorite superhero is Batman, Superman or Cinderella while wearing a "Brave Gown" they will believe that can take on any illness! Children have very limited control in their daily lives and especially when going through treatment for an illness. Becoming a superhero will allow them to access some sense of power during this scary time. What inspired me to make Brave Gowns? More than 3 million children are hospitalized in the United States. Every 33 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer and that's just one reason that children are admitted to the hospital. Twelve years ago on Halloween, my family became one of those statistics. Little did we know we were about to be faced with the fight of our lives. My brother, my only sibling, was only 10 years-old. I was 15 years-old older than him. We went from an office visit directly to the fight of our lives that ended up with us spending over a year in the hospital. I wish my story had a happy ending and I can tell you that my brother lived, but he is in heaven. He fought a battle that they said was impossible, but he beat it. In the end, he went to heaven due to a medical error. My favorite memory of our journey was the following year once again on Halloween. My brother was in the PICU (Pediactric Intensive Care Unit) and couldn't go Trick or Treating. He was laying there in a dingy pale yellow hospital gown that looked like it had been washed hundreds of times. There was nothing festive about it. It did not represent his personality or the holiday that he so loved! So I painted his face like a zombie. We were laughing so hard while I was painting it. Life felt a bit "normal" during this horrible time, but then we got in so much trouble! His skin practically peeled off, but all I could see behind it was his smile! He was so happy. Around Halloween of this year, I saw a picture of my friend's daughter that is now going through treatment and she was posing in her gown with a caption that read, "Maya trying to rock her blah hospital gown before her spinal tap!" That's when the idea of Brave Gowns hit me. Hospital gowns make you feel like just a number. They do not reflect these children's personalities. They do not bring hope!

12/05/2025

Our buddy Asher had a visit from Santa & Mrs Claus in PICU. Please send prayers his way. He has been wearing Brave Gowns since he was one-month-old. We love watching him grow and defeat all odds. ❤️

“A few days ago, Asher started with a wonderful day… before suffering from a continuous seizure that lasted more than 3 hours. Despite our rescue meds, EMS rescue meds, and the hospital we could not seem to stop it. Asher was admitted to the PICU and placed on several new seizure meds. We are relieved that his EEG and imaging shows that it was an isolated part of his brain that was continuously seizing..downside any time there is prolonged seizing there is a concern of brain damage. Only time will tell.

Asher is coming home. But he will be on increased medication. All we can do is watch and pray that he adjusts well and his recovery is smooth. We have known for a long time that his health is evolving. We trust in God and pray that he continues to lead us in Asher’s care.”

12/02/2025

Our brave little friend brought winter magic right into her hospital room! Her Snowman Brave Gown didn’t just give her comfort and a smile, it gave her a moment to feel like a kid, while in the hospital. And it is our hope, that maybe for a little while, the beeping monitors and hospital walls disappeared.

These are the moments you help create. Tiny pockets of hope and magic for kids who truly need it. Thank you all!🤍❄️⛄️

11/30/2025

Please send huge prayers Jace’s way. Jace is such a doll and it’s been a really rough week. Please take a second to read a message from his mom:

“Jace is experiencing intense withdrawal - fevers, tachycardic, shaky, delirious, etc. It is really, really hard to watch him suffer like this and I can only imagine how he feels. He is also at high risk of seizing when he is in distress. Please pray for his body to get relief. We still have ways to go to get him off sedatives.”❤️🙏

We are sending so much love to his family and can’t wait hear a positive update soon. 🫶

11/23/2025

Thank you so much to everyone that has sponsored a Brave Gown for a child on our waitlist this month and/or a Children’s Hospital! We truly couldn’t make a dent in our waitlist without all of you! At the beginning of the year, I was so paralyzed with fear of such a daunting list. So many of you have stepped up and just carried Brave Gowns with your kindness. We’re so excited to see what an impact we can make together through the holidays. Thank you all 💛

We’re all so glad to se that Jameson just got sponsored again, since he grew out of his original Brave Gown. 🙌

This is what Jensen’s Mom shared with us:

“Jensen is my four-year-old who just spent 19 days in the PICU in respiratory failure following a tonsil/adenoid removal with bronchoscopy & lavage. We wore our heavy trucks gown someone gifted us a couple years ago and it is sadly too small. Jensen has Alstrom syndrome and battles a lot of respiratory/lung sickness and frequently spends time in patient. I have attached a picture of Jensen wearing his current gown from our recent stay. It has now become the gown his special stuffy will wear when we go inpatient.”

11/18/2025

Often on posts shared from medical families, you see children at their sickest. You don’t see them full of life. With their hair. Their smile. Their glow. We raise awareness so others don’t feel so alone. We help, because we were once there too.

I don’t know how anyone ever feels whole again after losing a child or a sibling. I ache for the innocence of who we all were. The before and after, the people we used to be. We are all just human. Our bodies may age, but our souls are still childlike. Wanting to be whole and held. To be our carefree selves.

What I do know is that helping others through their pain is the only way any of this makes sense to me. Mac was so full of life, the most spirited of all of us. When he went to heaven on the eve of Thanksgiving, we had to wake up that first morning without him. The silence at that table was deafening. We spent Thanksgiving sharing our favorite stories and eating his favorite foods. It was surreal to be at that table without him.

This year, his anniversary in heaven lands on Thanksgiving. It serves as a quiet reminder to lift and help others wherever you can. I’ve always believed we are all just one. Connected by something bigger than ourselves. And if children can’t lead us there, then who can?

If I can give one work of advice as a parent, please don’t sweat the small stuff. I know it’s cliché, but if it’s fixable, it’s just part of the story. From spills to not so great grades, it’s all fixable. Give them grace. They are just kids. ♥️

11/18/2025

I don’t know how anyone ever feels whole again after losing a child or a sibling. I ache for the innocence of who we all were. The before and after, the people we used to be. We are all just human. Our bodies may age, but our souls are still childlike. Wanting to be whole and held. To be our carefree selves.

What I do know is that helping others through their pain is the only way any of this makes sense to me. Mac was so full of life, the most spirited of all of us. When he went to heaven on the eve of Thanksgiving, we had to wake up that first morning without him. The silence at that table was deafening. We spent Thanksgiving sharing our favorite stories and eating his favorite foods. It was surreal to be at that table without him.

This year, his anniversary in heaven lands on Thanksgiving. It serves as a quiet reminder to lift and help others wherever you can. I’ve always believed we are all just one. Connected by something bigger than ourselves. And if children can’t lead us there, then who can?

11/10/2025

Even with ATRT, this little sunshine rolls into an MRI with the biggest smile, happy, silly, and full of light. Her spirit shines so brightly and reminds us exactly why we do what we do.

We do everything we can to protect that spark, the giggles, the silliness, and the imagination that still believes in magic, even in the toughest moments.

Every gown we send is a soft layer of courage and comfort that helps kids like Bea hold onto their joy when the hospital feels scary.

No child should lose their sparkle while they are healing. Bea’s gown is full of playful kittens that match her sweet spirit. Thank you for believing with us! 💛🐱
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11/07/2025

💛 Every day, we meet real heroes, yet they’re not in comic books or on movie screens. They’re in hospital rooms, wearing Brave Gowns.

These kids show us what bravery really looks like. They face needles, tests, and long days with smiles that could light up the world. They teach us how to be strong, kind, and hopeful, even when things get hard.

A Brave Gown doesn’t give them superpowers, it simply reminds them of the ones they already have. It helps them feel like themselves, laugh like kids, and shine like the superheroes they truly are.

Kids are the best of humanity. Their pureness is all the good in the world and who inspire us to work harder every single day.🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️

11/07/2025

How sweet is Bea in her flamingo-themed Brave Gown? She just began chemo this week. Her aunt ordered almost every Brave Gown design we have to help make her smile and more comfortable. ❤️

“In mid-September, Bea developed persistent headaches, vomiting, and fatigue — what we thought was an innocent stomach bug. After a doctor reassured us, sending us home with Zofran and Pedialyte, her symptoms worsened. We took her to the ER at Westchester Medical Center, where imaging revealed a 5-centimeter mass in her right frontal lobe. We decided to transfer to Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU for surgery, where Dr. Harter performed a successful resection. Pathology later confirmed the diagnosis: Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT), a rare and aggressive brain tumor.”

To read more about Bea’s story and treatment, please go to the link in our stories. If you have a moment, please leave them a kind message below for Bea’s mom to read to her. We are praying for treatment to go as smoothly as possible for Bea and her family💛🙏

11/05/2025

Our love for Team Super Sophie and her family only gets stronger as every year passes. We can't believe she'd be 17. Happy Birthday Sweet Sophie. xoxo

10/31/2025

Can you spot it? 👀

I Spy with my little eye: Brave Gown vs standard-issue hospital gowns.

Comfort. Dignity. Personality. Smiles.

One small change that makes a really big difference for kids in the hardest moments. 💛

Thank you to the incredible nurses who get it and keep choosing Brave Gowns for their patients. Kids deserve the best we can do to make their hospital stay a little more childlike. 🎃 🪄

10/31/2025

I can’t make this up.

As a business page, I don’t get access to commercial songs. But I was determined to add audio, which is rare for me. I couldn’t find anything that felt right, so as a last-ditch effort, I clicked on “Copycat.”

It ended up being a version of one of Mac’s favorite songs by Afroman. The very first artist I looked for. Appropriate? No. Very Mac? Yes. Mac loved Afroman. He had to get hos playlist approved before every radiation session to make sure the nurses weren’t offended. They never were. They loved Mac.

Twenty-four years ago, on Halloween, I remember being so sad that I wasn’t going to get to take my son trick-or-treating. He was only four. I never missed a moment, especially one so big. Instead, after a call from our family pediatrician, I was rushing my mom and brother downtown to Children’s Memorial. I had no idea what leukemia was — or that there was a hospital filled solely with children.

That night, the sadness of missing Halloween was replaced with sheer fear. Our lives changed forever.
October 31st, 2001 became diagnosis day.
We were told Mac was being tested for leukemia.
If it was ALL, it would be “good” news.
If it was AML, it would not.
The news we received was one no one expected — Mac had both AML and ALL.
Less than a 1% chance of survival.
A year later, after two stem cell transplants and the worst case of GVHD imaginable, Mac went to heaven. Cancer-free.

That moment divided my life.
Before cancer. After cancer.
With Mac. Without Mac.
When Mac was alive.

For those two years, we watched kids trick-or-treat through his hospital window. One on diagnosis day and one from the PICU. That’s why we do what we do. Just because kids are in treatment doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get to celebrate.

Thank you all for helping me keep Mac’s memory alive and for helping put kids in Brave Gowns for the last ten years. I couldn’t do it without you.

And if trick or treating is tonight is the last thing you feeling like doing, I promise you it’s these memories you’ll miss the most when your kids are older. 💛

If you’d like to sponsor a child on our waitlist in honor of Mac, please do! It’s such a small way to make a big difference!

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What inspired me to make Brave Gowns? More than 3 million children are hospitalized in the United States. Every 33 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer and that's just one reason that children are admitted to the hospital. Twelve years ago on Halloween, my family became one of those statistics. Little did we know we were about to be faced with the fight of our lives. My brother, my only sibling, was only 10 years-old. I was 15 years-old older than him. We went from an office visit directly to the fight of our lives that ended up with us spending over a year in the hospital. I wish my story had a happy ending and I can tell you that my brother lived, but he is in heaven. He fought a battle that they said was impossible, but he beat it. In the end, he went to heaven due to a medical error. My favorite memory of our journey was the following year once again on Halloween. My brother was in the PICU (Pediactric Intensive Care Unit) and couldn't go Trick or Treating. He was laying there in a dingy pale yellow hospital gown that looked like it had been washed hundreds of times. There was nothing festive about it. It did not represent his personality or the holiday that he so loved! So I painted his face like a zombie. We were laughing so hard while I was painting it. Life felt a bit "normal" during this horrible time, but then we got in so much trouble! His skin practically peeled off, but all I could see behind it was his smile! He was so happy. Around Halloween of this year, I saw a picture of my friend's daughter that is now going through treatment and she was posing in her gown with a caption that read, "Maya trying to rock her blah hospital gown before her spinal tap!" That's when the idea of Brave Gowns hit me. Hospital gowns make you feel like just a number. They do not reflect these children's personalities. They do not bring hope! I knew we could do better!

What is a Brave Gown? A Brave Gown is a gown that a child will wear when going through a treatment that scares them, a horrible shot, a spinal tap, an MRI, an x-ray, a long hospital stay or just a moment that they need to feel BRAVE! One of the biggest reasons kids love superheroes is the sense of control and power they have on the world. For superheroes, anything is possible. We want children in the hospital fighting even the toughest disease, to put forth their best fight and conquer what battle they're fighting. Whether a child's favorite superhero is Batman, Superman or Cinderella while wearing a "Brave Gown" they will believe that can take on any illness! Brave Gowns are hospital gowns that are screen printed like costumes and make children feel brave! When a child walks in to a room for a procedure and they get asked what their favorite character is, they will get to choose which "Brave Gown" to wear. Mickey Mouse, Batman, Superman, a pumpkin, Elf, Princess, a musician, a cheerleader, etc...anything that represents a piece of the child's personality! No more dingy pastel gowns that make these kids feel hopeless. Children will feel in control and strong like Superman, happy like Mickey Mouse or cool as a cucumber like their favorite rockstar! Children have very limited control in their daily lives and especially when going through treatment for an illness. Becoming a superhero will allow them to access some sense of power during this scary time.

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