Nurses and doctors care for baby abandoned in delivery ward; it was her parent's seventh child
Telegraf 20.08.2019
She was born Aug. 4, the day the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of Mary Magdalene. One floor down from the maternity ward where the baby was born and abandoned by her parents, is a ward for women who struggle with sterility, witnessing the irony of life
The girl, born at the beginning of August in Vranje, southern Serbia, has been left in the maternity ward and her parents do not want to take her home. A thirty-six-year-old pregnant woman from Targoviste gave birth to the baby on August 4, and the hospital staff named her Marija (Serbian version of the name Mary) to mark the holiday that coincides with her birthday. The abandoned baby is doing well and is advancing nicely, says Dobrila Sosic, a pediatric
