They’re the tiniest and cutest trick-or-treaters you’re going to see this Halloween. And for parents at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, the itty-bitty costumes created and donated by March of Dimes gave them a reason to smile, and enjoy a special family moment in the NICU with their precious preemies.
“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 the South Central Region of March of Dimes told BabyCenter in an email. “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.”
Here is a look at more of the just-too-sweet costumes March of Dimes donated to these so-cute-it’s scary little tots.
“The March of Dimes provided babies at Saint Luke’s Hospital with handmade Halloween costumes, a ‘Trick or Treat, smell my feet’ card with their baby’s footprints, a hand crocheted pumpkin filled with treats, and a Halloween book that families can read together,” Hamblin also told BabyCenter. She adds that March of Dimes volunteers, along with Saint Luke’s NICU nurses made around 35 teeny-tiny costumes, and a staff member from Saint Luke’s crocheted the pumpkins.
Happy Halloween to these precious little babies and their families, from BabyCenter. What a treat for us to share this special experience with our readers!
Photos used with permission of March of Dimes, Sally Marrow, Helen Ransom and Emmalee Schaumburg.
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