SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Maverick and Maximus have been in the Avera NICU for 49 days so far with their mother Emily.
“We had the boys at 25 weeks and two days gestation, so they’re about 32 weeks and one day gestation now. So they came up here right after birth and it’s gone really well,” Maverick and Maximus’s mom, Emily Sumption said.
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While the boys are doing well, being in the NICU is not how families want to spend their first Christmas season with their children. To help bring festivities to the NICU floor, Avera made special ugly sweaters for all the babies.
“We have felt that we just cut out a couple of different sizes in the sweater pattern,” Avera RN Tanya Barnhart said. “And then we have all sorts of different things we use for decorating some peel and stick like puffy stickers, lots of pom pom balls, pipe cleaners, glitter, all sorts of stuff.”
While the babies are the ones wearing the garb, it’s the parents who are seen with smiles from ear to ear.