when a baby is born and is place in the crib in the nursey
how is it label in order not to confuse identy with the other children?



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a wristband

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I was told that.... the baby is "label" by its gender and its last name...

for example

Girl Williams


is this true?

Maybe...depends on the hospital I guess
I dont have children so I cant honestly say..

My wristband is like that; girl(my last name)
because I was given my first name after they put the wristband on

I maybe wrong but I thought that the mother and the baby had wristbands with matching serial numbers. I know that the hospital I used to volunteer at did that, like a little bar code, also the bands were blue for boys, pink for girls and had the first and last name of the child and the mother on them. That was years ago though, but I don't see it changing all that much.

That sounds more accurate

I was easy to identify, I came out with a full grown afro. Sorry mom

both mom and baby have wristbands that are put on immediately with a number and the mother's name on them, and the sex of the baby on the baby's.

(at least that's how all my friends' were)

Sweeny79 said:

That's true too, but they still label the baby by gender and last name, since you usually don't sign the birth certificate (official naming of baby) until you're ready to leave the hospital.

However, with the recent "stealing" of babies, a lot of hospitals have gone to the intelligent wristbands Sweeny's talking about. If the baby is taken off the ward an alarm will sound and security will come out of no where and I believe in some hospitals the wards are locked down (like prison)

EskomoKisses said:

i think its like that everywhere ...worried about a mix up?

My father is the director of security at a hospital in Philadelphia and my mom works in the intensive care nursery there and they have name bracelets with the baby's mothers name, sex, all that general info, and special anklets that go on the baby that have security sensors on the baby to track if they are moved from the unit. If they're removed, alarms go off.

theVelvetRoper said:

scary alarm too if ya dont know whats goin on...in the hospital i work for its like lockdown lol...the elevators stop and all the doors automatically lock within the hospital

An ankle band and a wrist band and the mother wears an identical one with identical info.

Sweeny79 said:

Baby safety is important in a hospital. Too many crazy people abducting new borns coz they are convinced it is theirs

There was no confusion with me. All the had to do is ask me for my name. no need for tags

When I was born, it was a red wristband for Coke, blue one for Pepsi...

Yeah like everyone says here it's got a specific code on the wrist band!! I've still got my little wristband and u can tell the information was typed on an old typewriter- anyone remember those?? But i dont think much has changed!! I seen those tags on my lil cousinz aswell!! I saw 8 of em in hospital and also a tag with the surname and goin by memory da mama's name on the hospital crib and the mummy's bed head

when my children were born which my youngest is only 3 there were no codes apart from the baby shared my hospital number on there wrist bands but they had a ankle band on both feet and one on the wrist too all with baby girl/boy of and my name and hospital number

All depends on where they find the three 9's.

finger and foot printed IN delivery room matching wristbands w/ id # and yes ...

baby girl - treadway ...til you name them then they add 1st name

thats how they did my kids here 15 and 13 yrs ago

My mum knew I was hers when I sat up and demanded to know why I wasn't wearing my Poncho.