"The hospital doctor had no choice but to get her a realistic doll, a smart doll so realistic that it could call out 'mother'. When Jillian Carter heard the doll cry, laugh, and call 'mother', she treated the doll as her son, stopped trying to take other people's children, and didn't bite people anymore."
Perhaps because Jillian Carter showed some improvement, the hospital nurse, being negligent in her supervision, allowed Jillian Carter the opportunity to hold the child and run out of the hospital.
The purpose of Jillian Carter running out of the hospital with the child might have been to find Joseph Shaw, the father, to share the good news that the child could already speak.
After Jillian Carter got the new doll, the hospital nurse heard her mention that she had to tell Joseph Shaw that their child could call out 'mother', and she also said she would try hard to teach the child to call out 'daddy'.
