Comments about ‘Retirement complex now doting over its youngest resident 6-month-old 'Prince George'’

I've heard elderly residents in a center like this get so much out of having a resident dog or cat who roams around the facility.

How great is this--a resident baby!

A little therapy animal. A plus plus for everyone.

It reminds of a place I once visited where a nursing home was adjoined by a pediatric care center housing several terribly disabled children. These were children who had been born with horrible defects. Some had been rendered to vegetative state by accidents. Most were non-mobile and without any discernible brain function. Many were kept alive only by machines. In some cases, parents and other family members had been unable to cope with tragedy and rarely or never visited the children.

But the old people in the home held them, rocked them, sang to them, read to them -- loved them. And they all reaped blessings.

I had only been making a delivery there when I made the mistake of asking what a "pediatric care center was." The director took me on an unforgettable tour. Then I spent half an hour sitting in my delivery truck in the parking lot -- crying like a baby.

Some of us do that when we've witnessed something so tragic and yet so wonderful as what I saw that day.

Excuse me, please. It's hard to type when you can't see the screen.

I couldn't wipe the smile off my face as I read this delightful article. Not ever being able to have a child I am so happy for this gal. What joy babies, children bring to our lives along with the challenges but definitely blessings with each life. What would this world be without these wonderful children? I cannot imagine it.