{"id":323281,"date":"2024-12-19T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323281"},"modified":"2024-12-18T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:49:50","slug":"nicu-nurse-medical-resident-baby-cared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nicu-nurse-medical-resident-baby-cared\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Surreal’: NICU nurse learns medical resident was baby she cared for 28 years earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A neonatal intensive care nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and a preemie she cared for years prior had a surprise reunion<\/a> when a new resident walked into her NICU and told her his name.<\/p>\n

Vilma Wong had been working at the hospital for 32 years when a young doctor began his residency on her team. Seeing him standing by the incubators, she asked him who he was. When she heard his name \u2014 Brandon Seminatore \u2014 she knew he wasn’t just any doctor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis last name sounded very familiar,\u201d she told the San Jose Mercury News<\/a>. “I kept asking where he was from, and he told me that he was from San Jose, California, and that, as a matter of fact, he was a premature baby born at our hospital.<\/p>\n

“I then got very suspicious because I remember being the primary nurse to a baby with the same last name,” she explained.<\/p>\n

She told him that the baby she had cared for was born at 29 weeks, weighing just two pounds and six ounces in 1990, and that his father had been a member of the San Jose police department.<\/p>\n

That’s when Seminatore noticed Wong’s name tag.<\/p>\n

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