LUBBOCK, Texas -- There's joy in Lubbock, Texas.

A 5-day-old baby who has been the object of a search was found safe and appears to be doing fine.

Priscilla Maldanado was taken to University Medical Center by police and reunited with her parents. Her mother said the baby was abducted by a woman who had posed as a nurse in medical scrubs.

Erica Ysasaga told police that a woman who had visited her several times in the hospital after she gave birth last week disappeared with her daughter from her home.

The woman visited the family Sunday afternoon and told the mother that she wanted to put the newborn in a baby pageant.

"I said, 'No, my baby is sick. She can't be out in public,"' Ysasaga said. "She said they would pay me $100 and my baby would win stuff."

Later the woman asked to take the baby to her brother's house, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Ysasaga refused, instead going along and bringing the baby and her 2-year-old son, the Department of Public Safety said.

The four were returning to Ysasaga's home when the woman disappeared with Priscilla while the mother was distracted by her son, police Lt. Roy Bassett said.

A tip from the public led authorities to the missing baby.

A police official said a caller in Amarillo suggested they contact a man in Lubbock. Police called the man and asked if his wife had recently had a baby. The man told police she had, but raised the suspicions of investigators.

The wife -- Stephanie Lynn Anderson Jones -- is being held on kidnapping charges. The husband is being questioned.

Priscilla, who previously had been diagnosed with jaundice, is being evaluated.