{"id":300657,"date":"2023-10-30T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300657"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:59:14","slug":"halloween-hospitals-adorable-nicu-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/halloween-hospitals-adorable-nicu-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween comes to hospitals across the country with adorable NICU costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When parents are expecting a baby, no one plans on spending time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). But occasionally, a premature delivery happens, or complications take place, and the baby has to stay in the hospital for longer than expected. While preemies are in the NICU getting stronger, their parents are just praying for them to survive.<\/p>\n

That’s exactly why NICU workers across the country go the extra mile to make holidays in the hospital a little bit easier. And the Halloween spirit came with adorable costumes for tiny patients across the country.<\/p>\n

Advocate Children’s Hospital<\/h3>\n

The babies at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Chicago are taking part in a costume contest full of cuteness, which was posted on their Facebook page<\/a>. There were Disney favorites, like Elsa and Anna and Baby Yoda, as well as other pop culture nods, like Barbie and the Mario Brothers.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s so cool that they even do stuff like the little Halloween costume [bash],” dad Louis Leathers told Good Morning America<\/a>. “I think it’s very good for the parents to boost morale and get an opportunity to dress your child and have fun despite [the babies] still [needing] medical treatment and assistance.”<\/p>\n

“[Noah’s] never seen the sun,” mom Elishebah Fils-Aime added. “He doesn’t know the outside exists and … to be able to have those moments to look back on and show him like, ‘Hey, this is you in the hospital, dressed up for Halloween,’ just to show him it wasn’t all struggle, wasn’t all sad [and that] we got to enjoy some of it [is] an amazing thing.”<\/p>\n