Dr Carey Andrew-Jaja is known as the Singing Doctor at the Magee Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.
Why? Because he welcomes every child he delivers into the world with a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday.
“It started when I was a resident.” he explains in this heartwarming video. “There was an old obstetrician gynaecologist on staff and when he was about to retire he asked me: ‘Andrew, do you sing to your babies?’ I said, well, no, and he said ‘Go ahead! Do it! So I took it over. He passed on the baton to me.”
“It’s special.” he says. “It shows they are an individual. I deliver thousands and thousands of babies and when I’m singing to those babies I’m singing to a future important person,”
“I feel an obligation and I enjoy another opportunity to celebrate with the family,”
