California nurse adopts baby left at his hospital
As soon as their eyes met, Robin Kohls knew the baby was going to be part of her life forever.
Her husband, Joshua Kohls, is an ER nurse at St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, California. In 2016, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy at the hospital, then went outside to smoke a cigarette. She never came back. Joshua Kohls called his wife to tell her about what happened, and "it was heartbreaking," Robin Kohls said. "I couldn't sleep, I couldn't cope with it. ... It just sat on my heart."
The couple, already parents to two children, sent an email to the baby's social worker, and two days later, Logan was brought to their house. "I saw him and knew right then that he was going to be mine, and I was going to be part of his life," Robin Kohls said. "Every night from that moment on, I would take him to bed and tell him, 'I am so lucky to have you. I'm so lucky God put you in our life.'"
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Last month, the Kohls officially adopted Logan through San Bernardino County Children and Family Services. "It means that he's forever going to be ours, and that even though he's been ours in our heart and in our love, it's our birthday with him," Robin Kohls said. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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