Hospital is the last place kids and their families want to be spending Christmas.
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But staff are always looking for ways to make it feel a bit more like home.
Children at Canberra Hospital had their days brightened with a special delivery of customised teddy bears on Christmas Day.
Junior doctors at the hospital had worked on building and designing the bears as part of a mental health program.
They decided to make good use of them and come in on Christmas Day to give them to sick kids.
Ronin Smith, 9, has been in hospital for meningitis and just got the all clear to go home.
He said Christmas at the hospital - where ward staff go to a lot of effort to create a festive cheer - had been jam packed full of fun.
He was thrilled with his "cute" bear, hand delivered by doctors in the morning.
"It's pretty cool because you get to do lots of cool stuff," he said.
Among other patients to receive the teddy bear was Jean Hallam, who at just 22 days old will have an extra special teddy bear to cuddle through her childhood.
She was able to go home after spending the first three weeks of her life at hospital.
Dr Dharan Sukumar, an intern at Canberra, said the doctors decided to give the bears to children to help bring extra cheer to their day.
"You can tell these kids, some are stuck in here and they really don't want to be there," he said.
"You see their faces light up, it feels like we're making a bit of a difference which is really nice on Christmas.
"It's got to be so tough, I can't even imagine how difficult it must be especially if they've got family at home.
"Don't get me wrong it's a great environment here, especially with all the amazing decorations, but it's nowhere near home.
"Not to mention for all these kids it's probably the toughest period of their lives."