{"id":280312,"date":"2022-11-24T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280312"},"modified":"2022-11-29T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:01:00","slug":"indiana-officer-wife-adopt-safe-haven-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-officer-wife-adopt-safe-haven-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana officer and wife adopt baby surrendered in Safe Haven Baby Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>An Indiana police officer and his wife have adopted a baby girl rescued through a Safe Haven Baby Box. WNDU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wndu.com\/2022\/11\/18\/mishawaka-police-officer-adopts-baby-safe-surrender-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that\u00a0Bruce and Shelby Faltynski adopted baby Myah on November 18, National Adoption Day, months after she was found surrendered in the baby box.<\/p>\n<p>Safe Haven Baby Box is an organization that installs temperature-controlled, monitored boxes in firehouses, hospitals, and other safe haven locations around the country. The box allows a parent to anonymously and safely surrender an infant. Each state has its own time period during which a parent may safely surrender an infant; in Indiana, parents can do so in the first 30 days after birth. While there are 113 boxes installed in states throughout the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/shbb.org\/locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">90 of them<\/a> are located in Indiana, likely due to the fact that the group&#8217;s founder is based in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe doctor thought [she was] maybe less than 24 hours old when she was initially surrendered in the Safe Haven box in Lake County,\u201d Shelby told WNDU. \u201cWe are so grateful for Myah\u2019s birth mom; she made a really courageous decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>URGENT:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/future-of-abortion\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=minibomb\"><b><i>For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myah is the second child adopted by the couple this year. In March, they finalized the adoption of their 8-year-old, Kaia. Just a few weeks later they received a call from the Department of Children&#8217;s Services that a baby had been surrendered and needed a home.<\/p>\n<p>After she was surrendered, Myah spent some time in the NICU because doctors realized she had suffered a stroke. Her parents say she is doing well now and meeting all her milestones.<\/p>\n<p>The Safe Haven Baby Box organization was founded by Monica Kelsey, who herself was abandoned and later adopted as an infant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s tons of options for parents out there,\u201d Kelsey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawenforcementtoday.com\/heartwarming-mishawaka-indiana-police-officer-wife-adopt-child-abandoned-in-baby-box\/?fbclid=IwAR2J7eeAYEZ8jaf3XT0LSNRWj6HGi3C8wZR22VmH4IS_zXi3dwe_gVAcoX8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said<\/a>. \u201c[The mother] can call us at our crisis hotline 1-866-99BABY1. It\u2019s on the front of every box, it\u2019s on our website. But there are options. This is a final option. We don\u2019t want you to choose this first, but if you have exhausted all of your other options, we want you to choose this last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indiana police officer and his wife have adopted a baby girl rescued through a Safe Haven Baby Box. WNDU reports that\u00a0Bruce and Shelby Faltynski adopted baby Myah on November 18, National Adoption Day, months after she was found surrendered in the baby box. Safe Haven Baby Box is an organization that installs temperature-controlled, monitored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":280344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9455,3473,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indiana officer and wife adopt baby surrendered in Safe Haven Baby Box<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bruce and Shelby Faltynski adopted baby Myah on November 18, National Adoption Day, months after she was found surrendered in the baby box. 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