Happy Mother’s Day weekend! This story about life-saving work, fostering, and adoption has been a few years in the making; but it is a perfect one for a Feel-Good Friday that precedes this special day for moms.
Taylor and Drew Deras were both neo-natal intensive care (NICU) nurses who met on the job at Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Their unique profession and roles bonded them as friends, and that moved quickly into love. Taylor and Drew were married in 2020. In May of 2021, a baby named Ella was born at Methodist, 23 weeks and one day premature. Taylor became a part of the team of nurses that gave Ella round-the-clock care:
“I knew I kind of wanted that challenge as a nurse to be able to take care of her and kind of see where things would go and what she would do,” the 31-year-old recalled to “Good Morning America.” […]
“She was intubated for multiple months at…
