[kmoonshine]

"When she was just 2 weeks old, Emma Grace lay on an operating table, scrawny arms and legs spread out, tiny body dwarfed by the giant room full of steel and high-tech gadgetry. Her chest was raised so a surgeon could get to her faulty heart.

No feet were pacing outside on her account, no eyes darting for updates.
Before she learned how to smile or hold a gaze, Emma was given up twice — by her 23-year-old birth mother, a drug-user, smoker and drinker who knew she could never care for the baby, and by a 48-year-old adoptive mother who backed out when she learned of Emma's heart condition and of her own pregnancy by in-vitro fertilization...

Word of the orphan baby had spread quickly among Miami Children's nursing staff. "This was the first baby where there just wasn't anybody calling. It just really got to us," veteran cardiac nurse Carol Ann Hoehn said. "We thought: 'You know what, we'll fill in the gap here.' "
Teddy bears starting turning up in the newborn's bed. Bright pink bows began adorning her head. Nurses made a point to pop into her room and hold her."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25589588

[PiPhi2004]

This story made me want to cry. What a lucky little girl and what lucky new parents!! It just goes to show that there are still lots of good people left in the world!

[CHATSDALE]

really heart touching

[CHATSDALE]

this was closed by accident, sorry

[earle58]

this story so reminds me of God and His perfect timing.
truly, a winning situation for all involved.

leslie

[gentlegiver]

Please give notice when you post such sad/beautiful stories. I'm at work and had to run for a box of tissues!

How wonderful that God truely does answer our prayers.

[mrosev14]

Great story, thanks for posting it.

[jezbo537]

That was so touching. It is all to often that you find that people who have babies don't want them so they throw them away in dumpsters or something and then people who can't have children and really do want them, they can't because of money or the birth parent backs out or something. It is good to see that finally a deserving couple got their chance to shine.