Can I just say that sometimes people can be really fuckin stupid.

My mother works at Downstate Hospital on the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit).

Earlier this week a woman gave birth to a healthy baby. Doctors came and did the usual. Checked signs and what not. Then took the baby away.

About an hour later, they came to tell the mother that her baby is on NICU because of a fractured skull.

Apparently, one of the doctors dropped the baby. Instead of fessing up to it, they tried to say the baby fell out of the incubator because it wasnt closed all the way. They tried to say the baby rolled over and fell out. WTF?!?!?

How the hell a newborn baby manage to roll over???

....I smell a big ass lawsuit....

Tell the cops, thats rather serious.

I work in a children's hospital. A newborn is not responsible for rolling out of its incubator.

This is serious!

DanceWme said:

Good catch. They can't.

Cinnie said:

And the thing about it is that my mother said she went to visit the baby's mother and she seemed fine. Not me, I would've been flippin shit upside down.

DanceWme said:

Yeah! raising all kinds of HELL! Im mad now and its not my child.

ThreadCula said:

So is the baby OK now?

ArielB said:

Baby is still on NICU. Im just praying everything will turn out fine.

That's is ridiculous and horrible

That is horrible! I truly hope the baby will be okay! This makes me sad and angry!

Like, I'm sure it was an accident. But I would still be so frustrated after carrying a healthy baby to term (A LOT OF WORK/SACRIFICE) only to have something bad like that happen while trusting the care of a health professional.

Cinnie said:

When my sister was in the hospital with my first nephew he had to go to NICU. My sister said there was this baby that was a premature baby in there and that the doctor they had taking care of that paticular child was an intern instead. The intern wound up breaking on of the baby's arms and one of the baby's legs .....the mom was furious and wanted to sue the hospital for all it's worth!

It's hard to trust these doctors!!!

KidaDynamite said:

How horribly sad on so many levels.

for the little injured newborn and the family.

DanceWme said:

DAMN! That poor baby and its mom too. How the heck can a doctor be so careless??

DanceWme said:

Me too, I would have been cussin that doctor out!

KidaDynamite said:

That's messed up, seriously!

DanceWme said:

me too

OMG. If somebody had done that to Tyra they wouldn't have lived.

I hope the baby will be ok ... but they will only be able to tell what damage was done after a few months/years.

Can it be they put the mom on some sedatives to keep her calm ?? I would be all over the place if this happened to me

As for Kid's story ... you know exactly how difficult it is to break a baby's / little kid's bones ??? That would be nothing less than malicious intent. Such a person should not be allowed near any kid ever again !!!

One4All4Ever said:

I had a neighbor when I lived in Delaware and her daughter started to limp and cry so she made an appointment and took her to the doctor. They asked all kinds of questions and did a work up. They took x rays and it turned out that there was a break in her leg in a really weird place. Apparently it was a place that is very uncommon to break. The doctor questioned my friend repeatedly about how this happened and my friend kept saying she didn't know. The doctor didn't believe her and reported her to child protective services. To make a long story short they almost took her daughter away from her. She and her husband were investigated for 6 months and had surprise home visits by a case worker. CPS called us to interview us about them. They had baby sat for us a million times and we trusted them totally. We watched each other's kids all the time. I don't believe for a second that they abused their daughter.

It's so scary that that can happen. I would be going crazy if someone tried to take my child from me.

hokie1 said:

and it would be hard to go through such an investigation. On the other hand, I'd rather be investigated 5 times and let go than knowing such investigations don't exist and people that really abuse children are not caught ...

If it weren't for humanity, we wouldn't need all those rules and regulations

One4All4Ever said:

True...I know that they are just doing their jobs. For the most part I think that they do a good job. They are so overloaded with cases and those social workers make next to nothing. They do it because they love and care about children.

I just heard a story on the news about a woman who took her 2 small kids in a public restroom and stabbed them to death.

What the hell?

It's sad to hear about adults lives being taken for no good reason, but when I hear about kids it just breaks my heart. Can you imagine how horrified and scared those poor babies must have been?