TV3’s Mothers’ day story celebrated no ordinary mother:
Liz Mills is a transitional caregiver, looking after new born babies before they find new families.
“This just started out as a chance conversation one day at church when the manager asked if I’d like to look after some of the babies prior to adoption,” she says.
It is now fifteen years and a couple of renovations later.
“This is my dinning room, but I decided years ago that where we ate our dinner wasn’t important so I made it our baby room,” she says.
She’s now cared for 112 babies, many suffering from disabilities like fetal alcohol syndrome.
“I think the huge responsibility and the privilege it is to look after a child that isn’t your own is massive. But I do it because I want to make a difference.”
I know a family who have adopted a couple of babies who have been affected by the alcohol or drugs their mothers took while pregnant.
Mothering others’ babies takes special qualities, even more so when they come with extraordinary challenges.
These people are heros.
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