FLINT, MI – When Autumn Coulter first met her daughter, it was in a hospital room.

Mora Wendel was 5 months old, a feeding tube coming out of her little body at Hurley Medical Center.

“I met her on a Friday, and I took her home on a Saturday,” Coulter said of their first encounter on July 30, 2022.

Mora weighed less than 2 pounds at the time.

“I think I fell in love with her the first time I held her,” she said.

Coulter had been licensed to adopt one child, but she noted, “They immediately moved my license to two.”

A little over a month later, on Sept. 1, 2022, Zay entered the picture.

“I always wanted more children. I was told I couldn’t have them,” said Coulter, who also has a 13-year-old daughter. “I always said if I can give one child a better life, I’m doing something good in l

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