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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - JANUARY 20: Orphaned children sit together at the Maison des Enfants De Dieu orphanage on January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many countries including the United States have fast-tracked adoptions in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A 2-month-old baby girl, Jenni, was one of the first patients to arrive in Miami from Haiti after the massive earthquake and University of Miami doctors credited her quick arrival with saving the infants life.
Hundreds of other children, injured and uninjured, have arrived in the U.S. and all have been classified as orphans because of the quake.
But after more than a week of searching and sifting through rubble, some Haitian parents still on the island may be looking for children that have already been rescued - and taken.
"Baby Jean" may be one of those cases.
World aid organizations have called for a halt to Haitian adoptions in hopes of reuniting families, but that word of caution might be drowned by the world's eagerness to help. Some say thousands of orphans may be headed to the U.S., with many settling in Miami as part of Operation Pierre Pan, a relocation/rescue plan.
But there may be one complication: Not everyone in Haiti is dead.
A Haitian couple told the Miami Herald they are looking for their missing infant and officials plan to take DNA samples to see if the baby is a match. A blog on the website, The Christian Science Monitor, seems to side with the Haitian couple.
A woman who claims she was at Jenni's rescue writes the baby was taken to a makeshift triage unit, but when her parents came to visit, the baby had already been whisked away to Miami.
Such decisions had to be made to save a life.
During the Jan. 12 earthquake, families were as easily split apart as the bricks that brought the buildings down in Port-au-Prince. Chaos reigned over the capital city as people tried to figure out which way was up.
Help came quickly, but in the rush to aid the country, perhaps officials didn't have the ability to slow down and make sure that children were really orphans and not merely lost kids. They couldn't. In some cases, the choice was to send the children to the states or risk death.
Three major relief groups, led by World Vision, have called for an immediate halt to adoptions of Haitian children until a plan has been put in place to make sure that concerned parents in Haiti aren't getting the short end of the stick.
"Taking children out of the country would permanently separate thousands of children from their families -- a separation that would compound the acute trauma they are already suffering and inflict long-term damage on their chances of recovery," Save the Children Chief Executive Jasmine Whitbread told CNN.
Jenni was the first sign of hope that Haiti could be saved. Her possible return might bring more light and hope to some Haitian families.
