The mother in labor looked like your average teenager, she was pretty, beautiful skin, but not looking forward to being a mother. This baby would be put up for adoption.

Her hospital record tells another story. She is unmarried and from a poor family. Plus she was a drug user. You name the drug, she tried it. We were anticipating an addicted baby. My shift ended before she gave birth.

The next morning I reported in to the head nurse and inquired about the patient and her baby. She said that the child died before the labor was over and was stillborn. She told me to meet my instructor in the lab. I went to the lab still not knowing the reason. My instructor took me into a special room where they kept specimens of organs, hands, etc. In one large jar was a baby who had long black hair all over her body. Her hands had long claw like fingernails. There was no nose, her mouth was very tiny. She had one eye in the middle of her forehead. My instructor told me that if the baby had lived it would be unable to nurse because of not having a nose. This mutation of a child was a victim of a drug user mother before she got pregnant and used drugs her entire pregnancy.

I wish that all drug users who want a family someday could have seen what their habit could do to an unborn child.

They later cremated the body of the baby. That vision has stuck with me over the years and I know that I will never forget the baby or why it was born that way.

I hope that God forgave that woman. I know He probably did. He took the baby to be with Him because He loved the child unconditionally.

Hope I did not gross anyone out with this. Not you know what can happen if the child's parents are drug users. It could happen if the father was the only drug user, maybe not to the extent of mutation as this child. Ever see a baby that was addicted due to his mother's addiction. It would make your skin crawl. Babies crying because they are going through drug withdrawl, convulsing too along with other symptoms of withdrawl.