A baby clothing company is under fire for denying an employee’s request to work from home while she cared for her premature newborn in the NICU.
According to a GoFundMe, Marissa Hughes and her husband Rawley had spent the past three years trying to have a baby of their own, attempting everything from in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and enduring pregnancy losses, and a near-fatal surgery where Melissa briefly clinically died.
The couple even served as foster parents throughout the process. When Melissa and Rawley realized they needed to explore other options to have a family, they turned to adoption in October.
Two months later, they received a call: There was a baby available for adoption in a neonatal intensive care unit at an El Paso hospital nine hours away from their Dallas home.
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