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This Hospital Wins Christmas By Sending Newborns Home In Christmas Stockings For Over 50 Years Now
If you think Christmas is the best time of the year with everything being jolly and bright, first let me put in my two cents and say I totally agree with you, secondly, let’s have a story here that would brighten everything up even more. Probably we all know the Christmas stocking tradition and maybe even own one or two of them. What could be cuter than filling them up with little prezzies that will cheer up your loved ones and digging up some treasures from your own. Well, apparently someone in this Texas hospital figured there could be nothing cuter than a newborn in a stocking and has been putting December babies in them every year for as long as over five decades now and, let’s admit, it is one of the cutest things ever!
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The Methodist Children’s Hospital in Texas has been sending newborns home in Christmas stockings for over five decades
Image credits: Methodist Children’s Hospital
The stockings are made by a volunteer group called the Bluebirds of Methodist Hospital
Image credits: Methodist Children’s Hospital
Someone from the Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, came up with the cutest Christmas idea of putting newborn babies in Christmas stockings and they have had this tradition for over fifty years now. To add that extra touch of cuteness, they even give the little ones tiny Christmas hats to finish up the look. Both the stockings and the hats are made by their own volunteer group known as the Bluebirds of Methodist Hospital. We must say that’s not the only good deed carried out by the group. They do a great deal of good and help both the staff and the patients all year round.
Seeing their great example, some other hospitals adopted the tradition as well
Image credits: Methodist Children’s Hospital
Mount Auburn Hospital had their 12th annual Christmas baby stocking event this year
Image credits: Methodist Children’s Hospital
Even though it brings joy for most of us that have a chance to see this, people who are most overjoyed by traditions like this, of course, are the new parents. Some of them cherish the stockings that their babies came in so much, they keep it for decades and fill them up with little somethings for the child every year. Janie De Lare, who was born on Christmas day as well, said her baby came home in such a stocking 18 years ago on Christmas Eve.
Most of the new parents are really excited about the traditions and even keep the stockings to fill up for their child every year
Image credits: Methodist Children’s Hospital
People were stoked about this idea and apparently, a lot of them were a part of it as well
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Teresa Taylor 6 years ago
I was born a few days before Christmas in 1965. On Christmas Day, I was brought to my mother in a stocking with my name on it. I use that stocking every year; it's not Christmas without it. Growing up, I had the biggest stocking and the only one with my full name. Yeah. I'm special. Here's a photo of it. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5aZu6mJa_w/?igshid=ag71we939umx
June Clavelle 6 years ago
What a nice story! I love that you still use the stocking.
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John Louis 6 years ago
Probably not a good idea to hang them on the chimney with care. But we do sing a song about putting a baby in a tree top.
Lindsay Davis 6 years ago
They do this at HEB too! My sister was born on the 20th and she came home in a stocking :) made for some of the cutest christmas photos
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
What I find odd is all these babies lined up together. In New Zealand, babies are kept with their mothers when born in hospitals not lined up in a communal room. My daughter never once left my side between birth and going home.
Amber Cook 6 years ago
On December 18 this year it will be 21 years ago that I have birth to my first child. Our oldest boy, Evan, the day we went to take him home the nursery brought him to us in a stocking. He was the best Christmas present ever! He's grown into an amazing young man who's getting married this coming April. I still have the stocking he was brought to me in too. One day I will pass it down to him.
Jen Geiselhart 6 years ago
I was one of them over 45 years ago! Man I'm old!! Was in the NICU for a week and went home on Christmas Day
Michelle Muirhead 6 years ago
Every child is a special gift and Christmas just makes a bit more special with these hospitals placing them in stockings.
Caroline Driver 6 years ago
When I was born on Christmas day nearly 58 years ago, my mum said to my dad, 'there you go, there's your Christmas present. I've put more effort into that than any other present you're likely to get! '
Paula Hannon 6 years ago
I just saw the picture of them all lined up on a bed and immediately thought Woah someone's finally gone and done and had 10 babies at once.
Metra Amirhosseini 6 years ago
I was born Dec. 18, and put in a stocking at the hospital. My son was born Dec. 13, and he got his own stocking too at the hospital. Two different hospitals, different cities, both in Texas.
PoAngielsku 6 years ago
I think I'd rather have universal healthcare than a stocking. But hey go, I suppose if you pay tens of thousands of dollars to have a baby, it's cute if they throw in a free sock.
Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
No one: ... Literally no one: ... You: Surely this is offensive to someone, somehow?
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Teresa Taylor 6 years ago
I was born a few days before Christmas in 1965. On Christmas Day, I was brought to my mother in a stocking with my name on it. I use that stocking every year; it's not Christmas without it. Growing up, I had the biggest stocking and the only one with my full name. Yeah. I'm special. Here's a photo of it. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5aZu6mJa_w/?igshid=ag71we939umx
June Clavelle 6 years ago
What a nice story! I love that you still use the stocking.
Load More Replies... John Louis 6 years ago
Probably not a good idea to hang them on the chimney with care. But we do sing a song about putting a baby in a tree top.
Lindsay Davis 6 years ago
They do this at HEB too! My sister was born on the 20th and she came home in a stocking :) made for some of the cutest christmas photos
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
What I find odd is all these babies lined up together. In New Zealand, babies are kept with their mothers when born in hospitals not lined up in a communal room. My daughter never once left my side between birth and going home.
Amber Cook 6 years ago
On December 18 this year it will be 21 years ago that I have birth to my first child. Our oldest boy, Evan, the day we went to take him home the nursery brought him to us in a stocking. He was the best Christmas present ever! He's grown into an amazing young man who's getting married this coming April. I still have the stocking he was brought to me in too. One day I will pass it down to him.
Jen Geiselhart 6 years ago
I was one of them over 45 years ago! Man I'm old!! Was in the NICU for a week and went home on Christmas Day
Michelle Muirhead 6 years ago
Every child is a special gift and Christmas just makes a bit more special with these hospitals placing them in stockings.
Caroline Driver 6 years ago
When I was born on Christmas day nearly 58 years ago, my mum said to my dad, 'there you go, there's your Christmas present. I've put more effort into that than any other present you're likely to get! '
Paula Hannon 6 years ago
I just saw the picture of them all lined up on a bed and immediately thought Woah someone's finally gone and done and had 10 babies at once.
Metra Amirhosseini 6 years ago
I was born Dec. 18, and put in a stocking at the hospital. My son was born Dec. 13, and he got his own stocking too at the hospital. Two different hospitals, different cities, both in Texas.
PoAngielsku 6 years ago
I think I'd rather have universal healthcare than a stocking. But hey go, I suppose if you pay tens of thousands of dollars to have a baby, it's cute if they throw in a free sock.
Joannie Goulet 6 years ago
No one: ... Literally no one: ... You: Surely this is offensive to someone, somehow?
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