NICU babies at Henry Ford meet Halloween in hand-knit costumes
Volunteer Valerie Atkinson is in her ninth year knitting Halloween costumes for babies at Henry Ford Hospital, with help from Knit-Picky & Hooked and the Monroe Center for Healthy Aging. Families keep them.
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Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at Henry Ford Hospital spent a first Halloween in costumes knitted by hand, WILX reported. Valerie Atkinson is in her ninth year of making them. Knitters with Knit-Picky & Hooked and the Monroe Center for Healthy Aging helped. The families keep the outfits.
The costumes are small because the babies are still in the hospital. The volunteers treat the holiday as something parents can hold onto now, instead of waiting until everyone is home. It is a first costume, made to the size of a NICU bed, and it leaves with the family.
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