A Brooklyn nurse is saving premature babies in the very same hospital where she was born, alongside the nurses who saved her own life.

Cerilene Small was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Brookdale Hospital as a premature baby and returned 23 years later as a registered nurse.

Small now works alongside the very caregivers that nursed her back to health in 1992, when she weighed only 3 pounds.

"We had to work a lot feeding her until we got her to feed well, and we had to monitor the head, make sure it wasn't swelling up," says NICU nurse Cheryl Coard.

The nurses were eventually able to send her home healthy, leaving a lifelong impression that inspired her to follow in their footsteps.

"I think I just did well with the love they gave me here because I never felt abandoned, I grew up and became successful and very loving," says Small.

Small says her success story as a baby who was in NICU to now being a NICU nurse can comfort her patient's parents.

"For a lot of parents who are feeling stressed out about their babies being there in the NICU, who can't see the finish line, they’re feeling hopeless," says Small. "I made it, I'm here, I came back, your baby's going to be fine and be great and healthy in life."

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