Four years after her own premature birth experience, a Utah mother is giving back to families spending the holidays in the NICU at the same hospital where she delivered her baby.
At the time, McKenzie McCombs was battling COVID-19 complications that left her in a coma. Doctors at St. Marks Hospital in Millcreek performed an emergency delivery in November 2021, and her son, Coleman, was born at 28 weeks, weighing 2 pounds, 6 ounces, KSL-TV reported.
Remembering the three months their own child spent in the NICU, she and her husband, Brycen, now make it a yearly tradition to hand out holiday gift baskets to NICU families, including items like chapstick and bath bombs…