The baby has now been given the all-clear to leave the Texas-based hospital 140 days after he was born premature.
show almost 2.7 million vaginal births took place in the country in 2016, compared with around 1.3 million C-sections.
On Thursday, after 140 days being treated at the facility, Samuel was given the all-clear by the hospital to go home with his parents and is expected to leave with his family in the next few days. The multiple decorations stuck to Samuel's crib included the phrases"Way to go grad" and"Congrats grad" as a picture shared with Click2Houston showed the tiny baby lying on an animal-themed cushion.
"The windows are very special to me," Shelby told the local outlet as she explained that she created the artwork as"hospitals are not the most celebratory of places sometimes. They can look very sterile, and I wanted to bring a little bit of happiness to the patients and to their families and to make it a little bit more at home."
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