TYLER, Texas — Halloween is a holiday each kid should have the chance to celebrate, no matter how small or their condition.
At CHRISTUS Mother Frances in Tyler, the nurses dressed many of the babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit up in Halloween costumes.
Nurse Rachel Davis made many of the costumes for the babies.
"Everyone plans to go to labor delivery, and they plan to go to postpartum," Davis said. "But never did they plan to come to the intensive care unit."
Parents whose babies are in the NICU are not able to do the things that make parenting such a joy.
However, each parent is thankful for the joy the nurses help bring in their difficult time.
"Just knowing how much they really care. Taking time in their personal life to do this for our children to help us feel a little more normal," Grant Jordy, whose newborn daughter is in the NICU, said.
Even when the nurses are having tough days, seeing the babies dressed as Batman or as Wonder Woman brings them a sense of comfort as well.
Babies end up in the NICU for many different reasons, not just because they're born early.
"A lot of times it's their blood sugar's unstable, or they need a little bit of oxygen support because their lungs may not, didn't fully develop or they had a little bit of a struggle at delivery," Jamie Morrison, the Team Lead for Nursing in the NICU, said.
There are currently 22 babies in the NICU.