The effort began when Joelle Haley, whose 8-week-old son Kieran was born at DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital two days after Christmas 2025 at 24 weeks, two days of gestation, heard a nurse mention the NICU’s need for octopi.

A couple who were both in the same NICU together when they were born 28 years ago returned to the Dearborn hospital as newlyweds.

Born prematurely just days apart, Rachel and Hayden Sackey celebrated their recent marriage by revisiting Corewell Health Children‘s NICU, where their lifelong friendship began through their mothers’ shared journey.

It all began with a pair of moms brought together by the stress of both of their babies being in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Metro Detroit

Officials said some of the costumes were handmade by volunteers to ensure they fit the small ghosts, pumpkins and superheroes.

U-M’s Valerie Falk has been named one of 10 finalists in the 4moms nurse recognition program.

Young patients are celebrating Halloween early at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Births at U-M jumped 10-15% during a six month span in 2021.

Staff at Mott Children's helped patients and their families get into the Halloween spirit.

Photos of babies in the NICU at DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan dressed up for the holiday. Here are photos of babies in the NICU at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan dressed up for the holiday. Courtesy: NICU at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Twin nurses at a Georgia hospital are seeing double. Identical twins Tara Drinkard and Toni Howard work at the same hospital, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center, in Georgia. But the sisters had never helped deliver a baby together until recently, when Rebecca Williams, pregnant with twins, needed a cesarean section delivery. "I saw her in the hallway and said, 'We're having a twin delivery,''' Drinkard told WXIA-TV . "It's a pretty cool experience having them in there and being able to ask them questions," dad Brannan Williams said of the twin nurses.

At Children's Mercy Hospital, 36 NICU nurses are all giving birth this year. "The parents would joke when they see so many pregnant people walking around, like, 'Do you have to be pregnant to work here?'" And when one of their own babies ended up in the NICU, all the nurses rallied together. RELATED STORIESNewborns Get Cute 'Baby Shark' Onesies for Shark WeekSay Cheese! Queso-Loving Baby Licks Dip Off His PlateChildren's Hospital Has a Baby Boom Among Its Nurses