Nurse adopts a girl who had no visitors during her stay at the hospital

A Massachusetts Director of Nursing who, at the end of each working day, was visiting a baby who had landed at her hospital is now the mother of the girl after she volunteered to feed her when the state got its custody in October 2016. Liz Smith's daughter, Gisele, born in July 2016 at 29 weeks of gestation, was diagnosed with neonatal absence syndrome due to drug abuse by her birth mother during pregnancy.

According to Franciscan Children's blog, Gisele, who was born, weighed just under 2 pounds. She spent three months at the NICU on respiratory assistance before being transferred to Franciscan Children, and had developed an oral aversion. The child apparently had not been visited by Franciscan Children, with the exception of Smith, 45, who had recently learned that she was not a good candidate for IVF.

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With the support of family and friends, Smith decided to promote Gisele, then 9 months old, with the hope of helping her blossom out of the hospital walls. In the beginning, Gisele's biological parents had supervised the weekly visits, but according to the blog, they quickly became rare and the goal went from reunification to adoption.

"When I got the call to be told that the rights of the parents had ended, I imagined it would be a day of relief," said Smith, who had fallen in love with the girl, on the blog. . "And it was a day when I was really sad. I was really happy. But I was really sad for them. I won it but they lost it. And trying to fight addiction and being a mother is impossible. "

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So, two years after Gisèle's first landing in the state custody, Smith legally became his mother.

Smith said that when the judge entered the day of adoption on October 18, 2018, he said, "When a judge enters the room, everyone is respectful. But today, I want to respect you, Liz, because you deserve the respect of this room. A day of childbirth is a miracle. But adopting a child miles away is a destiny. That's what brought you closer. "

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In terms of development, Gisele flourished under Smith's attention. While continuing to feed herself through a feeding tube, Smith helped her start eating some solid foods, such as pizzas and avocados.

"From the moment I met her, there was something behind her striking blue eyes that was holding my attention," Smith told the Washington Post. "I felt that I needed to love this child and to protect her."