Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja, the 'singing doctor,' received an honor from the city of Pittsburgh as his career came to a close.
. The doctor sings to them, sometimes"Happy Birthday" and other times"What A Wonderful World," but he always welcomes the little ones into the world with a song.video posted by the hospital."And the rest of is that it's a beautiful world we live in. We forget about all the crisis going on everywhere for a moment when you see that miracle of life in front of you."
Andrew-Jaja admitted he didn't originate the idea of singing to his babies."I like to sing. But this particular part of singing to babies started when I was a resident. There was a gentleman, an older obstetrician-gynecologist on staff, and he loved to sing. And later on when he was about to retire, he asked me, 'Andy, do you sing to your babies?' And I said, 'Well, no. It's your stuff,'" he said.
"And he said, 'Go ahead, do it.' So, I took it over. He passed on the baton to me," he continued."And I took it over and I started to sing to my babies ever since then and I do it every time."The doctor finally retired from his practice at the end of June, but that hasn't stopped him from bringing cheer to patients at the hospital.
Although Andrew-Jaja retired from medicine at the end of June, he'd technically stopped delivering babies a few years ago. But he would still see his OB patients and sing them a tune,One recent patient, Lindsay Grimes, was one of the last new moms to be serenaded by the doctor, and it happened June 16, reported
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