NICU babies at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia get spooky for Halloween

all right finally up for no tricks here just a lot of treats Children's Hospital is giving us an early glimpse of the pumpkins and Penguins in the NICU this Halloween and for one local family this tradition is bringing some normaly to their Hospital stay when you're a NICU parent um you kind of grieve a lot of things you grieve the loss of bringing your baby home in a normal environment and when they have events like Halloween or their childlife team does special things with the kids it it gives you something to look forward to it brings the family together and allow other children so terara Reed says events like this certainly lighten the load her son Theodore was born at Chop's special delivery unit on June 11th and she says his diaphragm didn't form correctly and some of his organs migrated into his chest after several grueling months in the NICU he is celebrating his very first Halloween like many other babies there Theodore is dressing up as a penguin and other cuties dressed as baby cows a surgeon and a superhero it's just nice to see other people celebrating your baby and doing things that are to be expected even though we're in this unexpected scenario yeah Reed says the costumes are a family affair Theodore has an older brother who decided to switch his costume from a snowman to a penguin to match his baby brother so cute welcome sense of normaly for those families awesome so cute