Here’s the setup: A high chair. A baby boy who can’t stop grooving. And a room full of adults who’ve decided that tonight’s main course isn’t spaghetti—it’s Pink Pony Club.
Seeing this child—and falling in love with him immediately—was an experience like nothing else. I wanted to protect him. To love him. To hug and kiss him. I wanted to be there for every moment, big or small. Every milestone. Always.
At Tufts Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the halls turned into a pint-sized marathon course as nurses and parents dressed the hospital’s tiniest champions in miniature marathon bibs, sneakers, and headbands to celebrate their very first Boston Marathon.
In a now-viral TikTok that has racked up over 5.6 million views, the young nurse shares the deeply personal project she started while still in nursing school: a baby bead jar. Each bead represents a baby she’s helped deliver during her shifts as a night nurse.