Published December 22. 2025 02:45PM<\/p>\n
Lehigh Valley, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2025) \u2013 Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital, part of Jefferson Health, rang in their first holiday season with a visit from Santa.<\/p>\n
The region\u2019s tiniest babies and their siblings posed for photos with Old Saint Nick this week. Colleagues and parents got in on the fun too, dressing as elves and donning holiday sweaters. Families enjoyed pizza and activities while listening to holiday tunes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love planning events like this for our families because during the holidays especially, no one wants to have a child in the hospital,\u201d said Rebecca Salter, NICU Nurse Navigator. \u201cThis is just a small way of trying to bring a little bit of normalcy to their lives and include the rest of their family.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Level IV NICU at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children\u2019s Hospital provides the highest level of intensive care and is the only one of its kind in the area.<\/p>\n
Babies at NICUs at other Jefferson Health hospitals, including Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Einstein Memorial Hospital, will also be dressing up for the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 22. 2025 02:45PM Lehigh Valley, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2025) \u2013 Babies in the neonatal intensive care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-67930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}