Newborns at Dominican Hospital go home in oversized stockings

Newborn Kyzer getting ready to go home to Scotts Valley in a stocking — Dignity Health Dominican Hospital

By Avery Johnson

Published December 19, 2019 2:00 PM

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) This month, every baby born at Dominican Hospital will be going home in an oversized stocking.

It's part of a tradition that goes back decades, according to the hospital. Retired maternity nurses from Dominican, known as The Grateful Thread, sew oversized stockings and donate them every year.

Featured in the photos is Kyzer, who was born this week at Dominican and will be going home to Scotts Valley with his parents, Chanelle and Brad Shelton, in one of the stockings.

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