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Babies in intensive care get the best Halloween costumes
Source: Mashable
Over 30 premature babies in a Kansas City NICU were treated to a very special Halloween.
The newborns were outfitted with handmade costumes and then treated to memorable photoshoots with three volunteer photographers – all of whom gave birth to premature babies.
The March of Dimes and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, MO teamed up for the special occasion. March of Dimes volunteers and hospital nurses made the tiny costumes, most of which were superhero-themed.
"March of Dimes came up with the idea of making the cute costumes for our NICU babies at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. Families in the NICU may spend weeks or months here, and it can be an emotional time," Jennifer Hamblin Robinson, marketing and communications manager for March of Dimes, wrote to Mashable.
The newborns were outfitted with handmade costumes and then treated to memorable photoshoots with three volunteer photographers – all of whom gave birth to premature babies.
The March of Dimes and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, MO teamed up for the special occasion. March of Dimes volunteers and hospital nurses made the tiny costumes, most of which were superhero-themed.
"March of Dimes came up with the idea of making the cute costumes for our NICU babies at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. Families in the NICU may spend weeks or months here, and it can be an emotional time," Jennifer Hamblin Robinson, marketing and communications manager for March of Dimes, wrote to Mashable.
More: http://mashable.com/2016/10/29/nicu-babies-halloween-costumes/?utm_cid=hp-r-1#_gr9kTykkSqK
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It IS tough on the parents when their precious children have to spend time in the NICU...........and this has to help them.
That is so sweet.
Sometimes people suck. Sometimes people are amazing. Thanks for this reminder of the latter.
Hard to look at those tiny tots with all the tube and wires, but...the nurses get them through...
tension, tears, clocks ticking...and hope. 
One of those moments that makes the world a better place. 