The tradition celebrates babies born between Dec. 23 and Dec. 26.
Christmas came a little early for some families at Memorial Care Miller Children's And Women's Hospital in Long Beach. Hospital staff dressed the babies in giant red Christmas stockings.
"So every year around Christmas time we do the holiday stocking event and we celebrate the families and their babies around the holidays by gifting them with a stocking from the organization," one hospital staff said."And the babies with the parents consent get to do a little photoshoot in the holiday stockings.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters."I'm really excited, I'm happy. I feel blessed above everything else that she's finally here," one new mother said.
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