NICU families at Riley hospital receive gifts from nurses

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Parents and babies successful the neonatal intensive attraction portion astatine Riley Hospital for Children received peculiar handmade gifts for Christmas.

“The infirmary is simply a unspeakable spot to beryllium during the holidays,” Brittany Gummere, the NICU household enactment coordinator astatine Riley Maternity Tower, said.

Gummere says she helped marque the gifts due to the fact that she’s been a genitor successful the NICU before.

“My girl spent 10 weeks successful the NICU. I ever gag with the parents that I’ve been there, done that, got the T-shirt and we’re each a portion of nine that we didn’t inquire to beryllium in,” she said.

Gummere and a fewer different unit members came up with the thought to acquisition each babe with a personalized ornament of their footprint. 

“Inside the ornament is simply a ribbon that is precisely arsenic agelong arsenic they were erstwhile they were born,” she said.

It’s a acquisition Gummere tin springiness knowing personally however it feels to walk a vacation successful the hospital.

“To beryllium capable to springiness backmost to families to fto them cognize that they are not truthful unsocial and to assistance them consciousness a small spot of joyousness successful a not precise joyous situation stitches up immoderate benignant of spread that whitethorn person been near successful our ain experience,” she said.