Nurse Notices No One Has Visited Baby Girl in the Hospital for Five Months — Story of the Day

A childless nurse becomes attached to a tiny baby girl whose family abandons because she was born with health issues and decides to adopt her.

What Nurse Jacky Monroe had dreamed of since she was a little girl was becoming a mom. Sadly, Jacky and her husband Hank had been unable to conceive, and they were told they weren’t good candidates for IVF.

So Jacky poured her love for children into her patients — the tiny little babies at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Jacky found herself spending more and more time with one particular baby — little Ellie, who had been born a premmie and with terrible birth defects.

Jacky had worked the night shift for the last five months since Ellie was born, so she always presumed that Ellie’s parents visited during the day until one of her other little patients had a problem and the pediatric surgeon was called in for an emergency consult.

After the doctor had checked on the little boy, he walked out, but he stopped by little Ellie’s incubator. “That little girl is one hell of a fighter, nurse,” he exclaimed, gently caressing Ellie’s cheek. “Bad luck with her parents though.”

“I’ve never met them,” Jacky said.

“And you never will,” the doctor said sadly. “I operated on Ellie’s heart when she was born, but I told the parents we’d have to wait until she was a toddler for the major reconstructive surgery to her face, and they said they couldn’t handle it.”

“They what?” asked Jacky in disbelief.

“They basically abandoned her. They haven’t visited her in the last five months, and have put her up for adoption,” the doctor said angrily. “I’ve never seen anything like it!”

Jacky reached into the incubator and lay a gentle hand on Ellie’s little back. “But she’s so beautiful! And don’t they know that the cleft palate will be corrected? It’s just a matter of time!”

Jacky...