Newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit at CommonSpirit Holy Cross Hospital are celebrating Halloween a little early by dressing up their tiny babies.

The Halloween celebration organized by nurses and staff at the hospital’s NICU offers families a sense of healing after the long hours they spend there.

Having spent more than a month in the hospital, and still a month left to go, Callie Hennigan recalls the night her newborn was delivered in a wheelchair.

“It was surprising and unexpected. I was lying in bed, and my water broke. We headed over here, and we didn’t even make it,” said Hennigan. Her son, Rowan, was born prematurely at 28 weeks, four days, and he weighed 3 pounds.

“We went through the emergency room,” she recalled. “They’re bringing me up to the room, and his head was

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