And there's only so many AIDS babies I can kiss before that gets kind of old.

"It's not that there aren't wonderful documentaries made about AIDS babies," she said.

Although the dead child may have been the first AIDS baby born on Christmas, he was certainly not the last.

"We've met a number of other fathers like us," said one man, "including two couples who adopted AIDS babies."

The mother of every AIDS baby carries the virus herself.

I think still about the mother and wonder if by now she had a third AIDS baby, as the ward pediatrician thought she would.

"She looks like an AIDS baby," said the doctor who revived her.

The mother had one AIDS baby and then went and had another?

They leave the AIDS baby to shiver in the hard, sharp air.

And a moment later, the nun told me that the child was one of the AIDS babies.