Comments on: Halloween Baby

By: jasann

jasann — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:44:27 +0000

I cried when I read your story of the Harry Potter baby boy. My boy is an angel now, but I knit buriel outfits for the local charity

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:52:20 +0000

That story brought a tear to my eye! What a great way to help out the families of those children

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:35:46 +0000

Liz, we would love some burial wraps or outfits for our tiny angels here at our NICU at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver, CO! We do not have anything nice for them. I hope you write!

Diane, RN

By: Liz Parsons

Liz Parsons — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:15:33 +0000

Hi,my name is liz and I crochet for Nicu babies. Right now I don’t have a hospital to donate to. I have in the past helped the hospital in Albany,Ga.

Is there a nurse here who would like my hats,booties,afghans,dresses,onesies? I also have friends who like to help. I also crochet burial outfits for the babies who become angels.

Please write me.

Liz Parsons

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:11:51 +0000

Oh, and for Christmas this year, Mom’s making stockings to hang all the babies in for pictures! :-)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:05:51 +0000

That is so sweet, sounds like something my mom would do. This year she made pumpkin costumes for the babies in the NICU, had to shrink the patterns so they’d fit. Everyone loved the “Pumpkin Patch”! Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie comes out on Nov. 18, so my sister and I decided Mom needed a costume for the release, but our mother isn’t really a Mrs. Weasley or a Professor McGonagall and then it hit us: Madam Pompfrey, the nurse at Hogwarts! Of course, my mom has specific uniforms she has to wear to work as well, but she wears all the crazy headbands, especially around Christmas. So far, though, everyone’s favorite is her elf hat with the pointed ears on the sides… particularly because my mom is 4’10″ tall! We’re a very strange family, we like to dress up. :-)

By: ThirdDegreeNurse

ThirdDegreeNurse — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:43:51 +0000

Just toured our neonatal unit today; what a sweet story. I am touched. I would just be delighted to see my baby boy dressed up like Harry — it would give me hope.

By: V

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:58:50 +0000

I think it’s great to dress up the critters & probably great for the parents.
However, I can understand why the managers might not want their staff in cosutme. i had a friend tell me of a surreal experience being on call at a geriatric center on Halloween – when a code was called. It’s been 20 years, so I can’t recall what everyone was dressed up as. But having Frankenstein doing compressions while Bo Peep pushed meds must have been a profoundly disturbing sight.

By: Da Goddess

Da Goddess — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:01:56 +0000

It’s amazing how a little bit of “normal” goes along way, isn’t it?

By: PaedsRN

PaedsRN — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:20:05 +0000

I almost wish Halloween was a bit more of an occasion over here, I never thought of dressing up the patients! Nice one.