Halloween is here and every one is filled with amazement and merriment. There’s happiness all around even though in the form of peril nightmares and ghoulish faces and whatnot.
A group of nurses and volunteers at St. Luke Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, made the outfits for 35 babies in the neonatal intensive care unit
The babies were dressed as superheros and butterflies
Volunteer photographers took their photos so parents could have their baby's first Halloween picture
NICU is a sad and stressful place to be for any new parent and their new baby. So the folks over at the St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City cooked up a sweet little Halloween surprise: teeny, tiny little costumes for the preemies in their care. Yes, these NICU babies get tiny Halloween costumes and even a sweet little pumpkin so they can kind of trick or treat for the very first time. And the results are beyond precious.
"The parents were able to choose their babies' costumes to match the babies' personalities," Michelle Manuel, the hospital's director of media relations, told ABC News. "The idea is to be able to allow parents to have a sense of normalcy. In the NICU you might be there for weeks or months and this is to help spend that first Halloween and those special first moments together -- make those special family memories with us."
Thirty-five babies in a neonatal intensive care unit are celebrating their first Halloween in style.
The babies were photographed wearing their costumes, which range from superheros such as Wonder Woman to a colorful butterfly.
Three local photographers, all of whom previously had a baby in the NICU, volunteered to take pictures of each baby so there parents would have those cherished first Halloween snapshots.
'Providing an opportunity for them to celebrate Halloween with their little ones allows them a sense of normalcy, and to celebrate their baby's first milestones, which is what every family wants to do,' hospital spokeswoman Michelle Manuel told CNN.
One newborn named Myla was due on December 31, but was born on October 25 at 27 weeks.
In her photo, Myla can be seen modeling a tiny Wonder Woman costume that is draped over her body.
'It makes me feel like it is somewhat normal because normally in here she would have missed out on Halloween, and she wouldn't have had a costume,' Myla's mother Carli Neider told KMBC 9 News.
'So, now we get to participate in her own kind of Halloween here.'
However, Myla isn't the only superhero out of the bunch. Other babies were dressed as Batman, Superman, and Captain America.
And one little girl was angelically sleeping on her stomach while she was photographed with butterfly wings on her back.
In addition to the costumes, the babies' families were also given 'Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet' cards with their child's footprints, a children's Halloween book, and a hand crocheted pumpkin filled candy.
'It means quite a bit that somebody actually took time to make the costumes and make the treats and tried to make some kind sense of normalcy for her being in the hospital like this,' Myla's father Brandon Neider explained.
so amazing was the reception of this affair that the parents chose their baby's costumes based on their personalities. And this indeed was the first of it's kind Halloween affair, something unmistakably delightful.
