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re: Wrong baby: WWTOTD

Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:42 pm to
Posted by UpToPar
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Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:42 pm to
The only true way to ensure you go home with the right baby is to mark the baby with a mark that only you would recognize and no baby snatcher could ever imitate.
Posted by crazycubes
Member since Jan 2016
5256 posts
Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:46 pm to
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Many times the nurses may be busy doing actual nursing
Posted by LNCHBOX
70448
Member since Jun 2009
85149 posts
Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:52 pm to
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Some (most?) hospitals now have bracelets that are the equivalent of the ink tabs at a department store. If you leave the designated area with the baby then the entire hospital shuts down.


You don't even have to leave. 15 minutes into my daughter's life she got the bracelet on her ankle a little loose and that triggered the code pink.
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 2:53 pm to
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They also put a tracker on the ankle. The tracker for our child was turned off because we were near the stairwell and it kept going off incorrectly and nurses would rush in.



Sounds like you were at a shite hospital.
Posted by Benne Wafer
Member since Jan 2015
412 posts
Posted on 11/14/16 at 3:03 pm to
I would have complained to the nursing director out of concern that their protocol is not being followed. Even in the best systems humans can make mistakes.

I delivered both my girls at the same hospital. With the first they checked my arm band to the baby's ankle band and also made me verify the bands every time they brought her back to me. With the second, they did everything in room so she never left with a nurse. My DH got a bracelet in the delivery room too and there were a couple of times he took her for a walk in the halls and he was stopped to check his bracelet to make sure he was the dad. Nothing "official" to verify identities would have been on the bassinet itself, everything was on the anklets and bracelets put on right after delivery.
Posted by LNCHBOX
70448
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 3:04 pm to
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DH


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