More baby news...a Memorial Day!

[LL2]

What amazes me is the high tech security they have in maternity wards these days, and for good reason. Our daughter has a security item clamped to her umbilical cord. If she were to be taken too close to any of the exits or entrance ways an alarm will sound and the maternity ward goes into a lockdown. It comes off when we take her home. It brings a little peace of mind.

[oregonpackfan]

What amazes me is the high tech security they have in maternity wards these days, and for good reason. Our daughter has a security item clamped to her umbilical cord. If she were to be taken too close to any of the exits or entrance ways an alarm will sound and the maternity ward goes into a lockdown. It comes off when we take her home. It brings a little peace of mind.

Heck,

I was impressed with the security with my newborn daughter 19 years ago. When discharging her, both nurses read off the patient ID # to each other twice and had we parents verify the number in front of them.

What was funny was the features of the babies in the maternity room at the time. There was a pair of petitie Asian-American twin girls about 4 and 1/2 pounds each, a Hispanic baby girl of about 6-7 pound. and my daughter.

She was 9 lbs. 13 oz. inch long red hair, and the only Anglo baby. I joked to the nurses, "Yeah, the red-headed, linebacker-sized girl is mine, all right!"

Nineteen years later, she lost her humongous size and is now 5' 7", 125 lbs, but still has the red hair--now shoulder length.

[GrnBay007]

I think it's great the hospitals are being very security oriented. You used to hear a story every now and then how the wrong baby was given to the parents when they left the hospital........how terrible that would be. When I had mine they had codes on the wrist band...mom and baby matching and dad too. There's no mistaking mine now though. Apparently they have my features. Every time someone tells my daughter she looks just like me she looks at me and says, well that's #500....lol

[MJZiggy]

When mine was born, they had the matching wristbands to compare, and they also had a policy that you were not allowed to take the baby out of the bassinet outside your room. There was some sort of ruckus in the hallway and some of the moms popped our heads out of our doorways to see what was going on and the nurses yelled at us because the babies weren't in their bassinets.