Lovely

[dancerjodi]

This is one of our hospitals. We received the press release yesterday and were warned that it would be all over the news:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2509876/detail.html

Comments

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Yikes! that is scary...When Reave was born, he, Jim and I were all given ID bracelets (and a second anklet for Reave) and before hospital staff could leave him with us or let us take him out of the nursery they had to verify that the numbers matched so something like that couldn't happen.

Yup

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"and before hospital staff could leave him with us or let us take him out of the nursery they had to verify that the numbers matched so something like that couldn't happen."

We do that too, which is why this doesn't make any sense.

I think one or a few of our nurses may be let go for this, we'll see!

[developer.livejournal.com]

*shrug*

I mean, all babies are pretty much the same. After they are born they should be just tossed in a big room and you just grab one as you leave....

:P

[isolatory.livejournal.com]

This happens more often than you think. Not too sure why it's newsworthy, but oh well.

It actually happened to an ex girlfriend of mine. She had her baby, was in the hospital and they brought her someone else's baby during the night. She was groggy and started feeding the baby before realizing it wasn't hers. While traumatizing to today's thin skinned repressed and germphobic people, it did not make the news.

Both mothers and babies survived this oh-so-close brush with death, and I doubt they ever think about it anymore. Because there's a big fuss and stink made over this incident, something tells me it's going to stick with those families a lot longer.

Can you tell I'm not too big on the people who share this planet with me today? :)

germophobes

[teafox.livejournal.com]

i generally agree with your statement but i vaguely recall mention of trace evidence of certain diseases showing up in breast milk so it does have the potential to cause serious health problems...
if they'd just tattoo kids at birth with a unique identifying supplied by the government this would all be much easier, right? :) i think it'd be doubleplusgood.

Re: germophobes

[isolatory.livejournal.com]

Everything we do has the potential to cause serious health problems. Life is a fatal diesase. :) All I'm saying is that the human race seems to have survived wetnurses. It just amazes me what passes for news and what gets left off the presses.

goverment marking...

[macropixi.livejournal.com]

hmm you mean like maybe tatting their ssn on their forearm or something... wow thats a great idea, I wonder why someone hasn't come up with that yet? It would be a great way to keep track of people and even prevent kidnapping.

[dionysios.livejournal.com]

Odd, that was mentioned here at work too. :)

Given that historically wet nurses were commonly used, I'm not convinced that there are overwhelming health dangers.

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

South Shore Hospital just reported one
http://www.patriotledger.com/display/inn_news/news02.txt