Around the Web…

Some stories to start the abbreviated week with:

• What birth order says about your child — Breezy Mama
• How to cope with your crying baby — Just the Facts, Baby
• Readers weigh in on birthday party dos and don’ts — lilSugar
• A woman sues her hospital after breastfeeding the wrong baby following birth — UPI
• Can a baby be too chubby? — CNN

Comments

I understand that the woman is mad for breastfeeding the wrong child, and she has a right to be, but was there really $30,000 worth of damage? Nobody was hurt, and it couldn’t have caused THAT much harm to either baby?

- Erika on February 16th, 2010

Hear hear, Erica! Can’t she take joy from the fact that she provided comfort to a newborn? The incident certainly isn’t worth $30K.

- mp on February 16th, 2010

Okay, seriously… I could understand if the mother whose baby was breastfed by the wrong woman was suing (I mean the chance of disease, etc…), but in my honest opinion, this woman has absolutely no reason to sue. No damage was done to either her or her child by her feeding this child.

Actually, a very similar thing happened to my aunt’s stepdaughter 6 or 7 years ago with her first born. The nurse who was taking the babies to their mother’s failed to compare the babies bracelet to the mother’s and both infants were taken to the wrong rooms. Luckily her husband noticed nearly right away that the baby had way less hair than their daughter had been born with and he himself checked the bracelet. Luckily at that point neither baby had been fed by either woman. Yes it was a mistake that should NOT have happened, and yes things could have been worse, but they certainly didn’t sue the hospital.

- Rachel on February 16th, 2010

I’m delivering at that hospital any day now. I guess I’ll be extra careful to check name bands!

- Christine on February 17th, 2010

Maybe she is mad that her baby didnt get the colostrum I think its called..I know some women who are very territorial and serious about that stuff.

I cant say too much about it for legal reasons, but a relative of mine had someone breastfeed her baby. Appar the hospital staff didnt think it possible for a coloured lady to have a completely white baby, and she got more nurses checking her bands than the white lady they found breastfeeding her daughter, which no one checked at all and thought nothing of it when she sat down and started breastfeeding the baby.The woman turned out to be a patient recovering from a late miscarriage. The hospital settled with a large sum.

When I look at that situation, I think wow..wouldnt it be totally strange if the woman had sued my family or the hospital.

- Rach on February 17th, 2010