In California, some hospitals wrap the newly born into Christmas socks and nurses deliver such babies to their mothers when the babies are born in December; this is for the purpose to spread the happiness and joy of the Christmas. Such a gesture by wrapping the babies in socks is a Californian tradition which was formed in the 1930. Afterwards, it stopped for a while; it resumed in 2005 again. This year, 16 volunteers in California had spent a day to sew 250 Christmas socks and delivered them to every hospital. Some hospitals have even called babies born on the Christmas Day the Christmas Babies!

美国加州一些医院，为传播耶诞节喜气，把这个月在医院出生的婴儿，用耶诞袜包裹起来，让护士像送耶诞礼物一样，交到产妇手中。用耶诞袜包裹耶诞宝宝，是加州的传统，1930年代形成，后来中断一段时间，2005年再次恢复。今年加州16名义工花一天时间，缝制250只耶诞袜，送到各家医院。有些医院还把这个星期出生的婴儿称作耶诞宝宝。



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