'Second life' for Indian baby girl left on the streets to die

BBC News ^ | October 24, 2016 | Geeta Pandey

[Kaslin]

An incubator in the nursery of India's premier medical institute in Delhi has been home to a tiny infant for the past few days.

She was brought into the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) by the police in the early hours of last Wednesday.

When I walk in to the nursery, accompanied by her paediatrician Dr Jeeva Sankar, she is awake and fixes her eyes on me.

"This is our baby," the paediatrician says. A white band on her left wrist describes her as "unknown female".

A full-term healthy baby, her tiny face is perfectly formed and it is impossible to not fall in love with her. "She is beautiful," I say.

Veena Bahri, the head nurse, laughs: "Everyone says that."

The baby is staying in the nursery of the AIIMS hospital

As we stand there chatting, the baby begins to bawl. She is hungry. A nurse picks her up, comforts her. She brings out a small steel cup with a long beak, fills it with milk and starts to feed her. The crying stops instantly.

[mom4melody]

Both of our adopted children were found as tiny babies abandoned and left in the outdoors.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I just don't understand why abandoning mothers don't at least put their newborns in a safe place. I reckon that whether there's an official "Baby-Safe" policy/campaign locally or not, anywhere in the world you could bring your baby to an E.R. or a police or fire station.

Or an adoption agency, for God's sake!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I admire you, and envy you at the same time. It’s wonderful what you’ve done, adopting these children, and it’s also a wonderful blessing in both your lives and their lives. It’s all good! My best to you.

[DAC21]

And yet Hillary and most of her supporters would say, let her die, its the humane thing to do.