{"id":478011,"date":"2026-10-27T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478011\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:32:19","slug":"texas-softball-players-bring-halloween-cheer-to-babies-families-at-st-davids-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478011\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Softball players bring Halloween cheer to babies, families at St. David’s NICU"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas softball players brought a little Halloween cheer to families at St. David’s Medical Center on Friday, delivering hand-painted pumpkins to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).<\/p>\n

The pumpkins were created as part of Texas Softball’s annual pumpkin painting contest, where student-athletes decorate pumpkins with colorful designs and characters.<\/p>\n

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This year’s creations featured the Very Hungry Caterpillar, Hello Kitty, a vampire, a duck, a ladybug, a pig, a cow, and more.<\/p>\n

\"University<\/p>\n

University of Texas softball players brought a little Halloween cheer to families at St. David’s Medical Center on Friday, delivering hand-painted pumpkins to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). (Photo: St. David’s Hospital)<\/p>\n

The players delivered their artwork to the hospital’s Level IV NICU, which provides the highest level of specialized care for newborns.<\/p>\n

The visit was especially meaningful for families whose babies remain hospitalized and will not be able to go home for Halloween.<\/p>\n

The hand-painted pumpkins give those families a special keepsake to take home and a way to celebrate the holiday while their little ones receive care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 University of Texas softball players brought a little Halloween cheer to families at St. David’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-478011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}