Awesome Hospital Organizes Graduation Ceremonies For Premature Babies Leaving Intensive Care
At CaroMont Regional Medical Center in North Carolina, some very special mini-ceremonies are taking place – honoring and celebrating the lives of premature babies. Once the newborns are about to leave the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), they get a personalized graduation cap and a portrait.
“It’s just for babies born at 34 weeks of gestation or earlier… when they leave it’s a huge accomplishment not only for the baby but parents as well,” Melissa Jordan, a nurse at CaroMont Regional Medical Center told Buzzfeed. “The program was started as a way to celebrate this milestone in the babies’ lives.”
Jordan was inspired to do this after spending time with a vulnerable baby who was born just at 29 weeks. “The day he got discharged, we gathered staff and we went in singing and dancing and gave him his cap — and his parents just smiled ear to ear — that’s when we knew it was something we wanted to keep doing for other families,” Jordan said.
“Leaving the NICU can be joyful but also scary and nerve-wracking, so this was our way of bringing a little normalcy to taking the baby home,” Jordan said.
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At CaroMont Regional Medical Center in North Carolina, some very special mini-ceremonies are taking place…
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
The graduations that honor and celebrate the lives of premature babies
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
Once the newborns are about to leave the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)…
Image credits: CaroMont Health
They get a personalized graduation cap and a portrait
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
“The program was started as a way to celebrate this milestone in the babies’ lives”
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
A nurse got inspired to do this after spending time with a vulnerable baby who was born just at 29 weeks
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
“The day he got discharged, we gathered staff and we went in singing and dancing and gave him his cap…”
Image credits: CaroMont Health
“And his parents just smiled ear to ear — that’s when we knew it was something we wanted to keep doing”
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
“Leaving the NICU can be joyful but also scary and nerve-wracking…”
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
“So this was our way of bringing a little normalcy to taking the baby home”
Image credits: Bella Baby Photography
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When my son was born he came a little early. We luckily only had to spend a few days in the nice. Also called special care. It was so heartbreaking at times to be in there. Seeing other babies in incubators, hooked up to all sorts of machines and monitors. The nurses and doctors in the NICU are super human.
I was a early baby myself, I was supposed to be born July 14th but was born in May it didn't help I was a twin we were so small :)
Hero babies, well deserved after working so hard to live and get strong and well when so tiny!
When my son was born he came a little early. We luckily only had to spend a few days in the nice. Also called special care. It was so heartbreaking at times to be in there. Seeing other babies in incubators, hooked up to all sorts of machines and monitors. The nurses and doctors in the NICU are super human.
I was a early baby myself, I was supposed to be born July 14th but was born in May it didn't help I was a twin we were so small :)
Hero babies, well deserved after working so hard to live and get strong and well when so tiny!
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