NICU Baby DidNot Have A Single Visitor For 5 Months, So Nurse Decides To Be Her Mom Every once in while motherhood will find someone in surprising and unexpected ways.
That lesson was made clear for a nurse in Brighton, Massachusetts, who wound up adopting her daughter after the premature infant was under her care at the hospital for five months without one visitor.
Gisele, now a vibrant, active 2-year-old toddler, is now the light of Liz Smith’s life, and the devoted mom has decided to share her unique and heartwarming adoption experience with the world.
Smith first looked into her daughter’s bright blue eyes in 2016, when Gisele was a patient at her hospital for neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Boston.com reports that Smith, who at the time was the director of nursing at Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts, was walking over to the elevator at work when she saw something that made her stop in her tracks.
It was a beautiful baby girl with bright, blue eyes and a tiny little brown curl framing her face.
“Who’s This Beautiful Angel?” She Recalled Asking A Nurse Who Was Wheeling The Girl Down The Hall, According To Boston.Com. “Her Name Is Gisele,” The Nurse Replied.
Gisele arrived at Franciscan Childen’s Hospital five months prior and remained there. The infant was a ward of the state who had been born prematurely at another hospital in July 2016. When she was born Gisele only weighed one pound and 14-ounces.
The little girl was suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition in which infants are in withdrawal from certain drugs they were exposed to during the mother’s pregnancy. Often these drugs include opioids like prescription drugs and heroin.
The state removed Gisele from her birth mother’s care when she was 3-months-old and moved her to NICU at Franciscan Children’s Hospital because her lungs required specialized treatment.
The little angel also developed an oral aversion, a common problem in babies who have never experience pleasure from eating, that made her not want to eat.
A Smith’s hospital she had to place on a gastronomy tube to help feed her. But although she was starting to improve, she was still falling behind certain developmental milestones.
“Franciscan Was Providing Excellent Care,” Smith Explained, “But She Had Just Never Been Outside The Hospital.”
Gisele was also badly in need of a foster family if she was ever to get back on track with her development.
However, in the five months, she was at the hospital, she received not a single person came by to see the baby girl. Her social service workers were trying, without success, to place the child in a foster home.
“Gisele,” Smith Told Herself As She Drove Home. “I’m Going To Foster This Baby. I’m Going To Be Her Mother.”
Smith says that she always wanted to be a mom, but her life had not opened the right path to parenthood yet.
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Liz Smith, Director of Nursing, knew from a young age that she wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps and become a pediatric nurse. What she didn’t know is that her nursing career would lead her to find her daughter
As Smith told the Boston Globe, it was her mother who first gave her inspiration professionally and later personally for how she would eventually bring children into her life.
“My Mom Was A Pediatric Nurse Who Always Put Others First,” She Said. “So I Grew Up Wanting To Be A Nurse, Too.”
After her mom died when Smith was 19-years-old, she said that she found her calling in living a selfless life as a way to honor her mother’s memory.
But, as Smith entered her 40s, the nurse began to wonder when her family life was to begin.
“MY DEFINITION OF FAMILY WAS ALWAYS: IN MY 20S I’LL GET MARRIED, HAVE KIDS, AND HAVE A BIG FAMILY LIKE THE ONE I GREW UP WITH,” SHE EXPLAINED TO THE BOSTON GLOBE. “I THINK A LOT OF WOMEN CAN RELATE TO THE PRESSURE THAT WE FEEL THAT THERE’S AN ORDER TO DO THINGS.”
First, she decided to try and get pregnant on her own, attempting several rounds of IUI, which did not work. She was also devasted to find out that she could not try in vitro fertilization, her lab results had changed, thus disqualifying her for IVF, so her insurance company would not approve the procedure.
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