One of the first things neonatal nurse Katrina Mullen noticed about the 14-year-old who gave birth to triplets in her Indiana hospital was that the teen mom always seemed to be alone. “She’d be there ...

Imagine a tiny 14-year-old girl sitting alone in the NICU, staring at three fragile babies hooked to machines. That was Shariya Small in August 2020, an eighth-grader who had just delivered triplets ...

Shariya Small didn't like her mother the first time they met. Neonatal nurse Katrina Mullen was firm about the hospital's rules and that didn't sit well with Small. It didn't matter to Mullen. "I knew ...

"I’ve gone from doing most everything for the babies when they first got to me to now she runs the show," Katrina Mullen says of her adopted daughter Courtesy of Katrina Mullen Shariya Small's ...

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Shariya Small was 14 when she gave birth to triplets in 2020. The infants, born at 26 weeks gestation, spent over five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at Indianapolis’ Community Hospital ...

An NICU nurse decided to adopt a 14-year-old mother of triplets after seeing her in the hospital day after day with no support or family. Katrina Mullen was working at the neonatal intensive care unit ...

An Indianapolis foster parent and nurse is gaining national attention for opening her heart and home to a 14-year-old mom and her preemie triplets. Katrina Mullen, 45, of Brownsburg, adopted Shariya ...