board·er baby (bôr d r)n. An infant, often the offspring of drug addicts or AIDS victims, who remains for months, sometimes up to a year, at the hospital where he or she was born, waiting for placement in a home. |
boarder baby,
1 an infant abandoned to a hospital because the mother is unable to care for him or her. Many infants born with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or to a mother with HIV infection or infants delivered to mothers who are drug users are boarder babies.
2 in some hospitals, any infant still in the nursery after the mother's discharge for any reason (even if only temporarily).
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