As a neonatal intensive care nurse, Vilma Wong has taken care of tens of thousands of babies over the past few decades. Twenty-eight years ago, she took care of premature baby Brandon Seminatore, who weighed only 2 lbs., and 6 oz.

Despite the fact that she has cared for tons of babies, she never forgot about Brandon. She even remembered him when she came face to face with him as an adult at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California! Vilma was at work last month when noticed a second-year pediatric resident in blue scrubs near one of the incubators, and she asked him who he was.

When he told Vilma his name, she thought immediately that it “sounded very familiar.”

“I kept asking where he was from and he told me that he was from San Jose, California, and that, as a matter of fact, he was a premature baby born at our hospital,” said Vilma, 54. “I then got very suspicious because I remember being the primary nurse to a baby with the same last name.”

When Vilma asked him if his father was a police officer, the bond they shared became clear.

“There was a big silence,’’ she said, “and then he asked if I was Vilma.’’

Brandon said that “meeting Vilma was a surreal experience.”

“She cares deeply for her patients, to the point that she was able to remember a patient’s name almost three decades later,” he said.

Vilma explained that she was “in shock initially, but overjoyed to know that I took care of him almost 30 years ago and now he’s a pediatric resident to the same population he was part of when he was born.”

“As a nurse,’’ Vilma said of seeing Seminatore again, “it’s kind of like your reward.’’

How sweet is that?! Find out more about this in the video below!