One hospital has a tradition of sending new born babies home in Christmas stockings!
Christmas traditions are near and dear to many hearts around the world.
Some family Christmas traditions include cutting down and decorating trees, hanging advent wreaths or Christmas stockings, setting out cookies and milk for Santa Claus, setting up the Nativity scene figurines, and singing Christmas carols about Baby Jesus, St. Nicholas, Santa Clause, or Father Christmas.
But here’s one that’s pretty unique and its been going on for decades.
Every single year, for over 50 years, the Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. has sent newborn babies home in a Christmas stocking (with a matching hat)!
The adorable newborn Christmas stockings are handmade by the Bluebirds of Methodist Hospital, a volunteer group that does many incredible things for staff and patients throughout the year.
What parents love most – in addition to witnessing the cutest thing in the world – is that the stocking or matching hat become keepsakes.
According to readers on Bored Panda, they still remember their newborn Christmas stocking experiences! One reader recalled:
“When my youngest daughter was born New Years day she was wrapped in a white stocking with a red band while the other holiday babies were in red ones.”
Another remembered that “when [her] son was born, he was too big to fit in the stocking, so they put a Santa hat on him.”
And let’s be honest…
What greater stocking stuffer could a parent really ask for!?