It’s Halloween at the Children’s Hospital New Orleans (CHNOLA), and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nursing team is celebrating with adorable handmade animal costumes for their babies. The NICU nursing team will dress as zookeepers to match the babies.
Emily Cade, RN in the CHNOLA NICU, says making costumes and dressing the babies up for Halloween is a special tradition in the Children’s Hospital NICU.
“We love seeing our babies celebrate their first Halloween, and we love the joy the parents get from having a little bit of real-life normalcy while their babies are in the hospital.”
Haley Ingold, mom of baby Rhett, says being in the hospital with her baby can be sad and scary. “It’s really fun that the nurses do this for the babies. It makes being in the hospital fun and a little less difficult.”
The NICU nurses all chip in to make the costumes and treat all the babies as their own. Their kindness and compassion embody CHNOLA values, and they go above and beyond to give families the best experience.
The CHNOLA NICU nursing teams include Jacqueline Schnapp, Courtney Finnegan, Remy Rodrigues, Camryn Faucheaux, Robyn Ledet, Katherine Treuting, Madeline Haydel, Hailey Diechmann, Sarah Finken, Brooke Tompkins, Ashley Gullo, Madeline Eckert, and Emily Cade.
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
