At CaroMont Regional MedicalCenter in North Carolina, some very special mini-ceremonies are taking place, honoring and celebrating the lives of premature babies.

Once the newborns are about to leave the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), they get a personalized graduation cap and a portrait.

“It’s just for babies born at 34 weeks of gestation or earlier.

When they leave, it’s a huge accomplishment not only for the baby but parents as well,” Melissa Jordan, a nurse at CaroMont Regional Medical Center told Buzzfeed.

“The program was started as a way to celebrate this milestone in the babies’ lives.”

Jordan was inspired to do this after spending time with a vulnerable baby who was born just at 29 weeks.

“The day he got discharged, we gathered staff and we went in singing and dancing and gave him his cap and his parents just smiled ear to ear that’s when we knew it was something we wanted to keep doing for other families,”

Jordan said.

“Leaving the NICU can be joyful but also scary and nerve-wracking, so this was our way of bringing a little normalcy to taking the baby home,” Jordan said.





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The cap is made of foam sheets with a message that indicates the number of days the baby has stayed in NICU and that the baby has a whole life-time ahead.

To date, 14 babies have graduated, including three sets of twins.

Melissa and her colleagues have a small wish:

“Eventually, we hope to make a wall of graduates with these photos because it can also help give new parents in the NICU a little hope and reassurance,” she said.

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They are so special and precious. Kisses to all of them.

cuties

And many have died !

cyojunior1:
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So beautiful

Oluwashegunnn:
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Wow! How very cute! Praise be to God! Kudos to the doctors! Warm hugs to the parents! Badges of honour to the graduates

sisisioge:
Wow! How very cute! Praise be to God! Kudos to the doctors! Warm hugs to the parents! Badges of honour to the graduates

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sisisioge:


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Destined2win:
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cyojunior1:
And many have died !

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look at how they look lovely ..nothing beats the facial expression of babies...was two months and some days behind also..we are born fighters

They look so adorable

See cute babies.


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cyojunior1:



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