Shocking Video: Newborn Infants Die While Mother Pleads for Help, Hospital Staff Refuse to Assist

LIFE NEWS ^ | May 21, 2018 | Micaiah Bilger

[Morgana]

In a heart-wrenching new video, a mother can be heard begging Ohio hospital staff to save the lives of her premature twin boys before they died.

The video, released by the pro-life group Created Equal, alleges staff at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio refused to help the micro-preemies on June 24, 2017 after their mother, Amanda, gave birth at 22 weeks and five days of pregnancy.

“You’re going to save him, right? Promise me you’re going to save him,” Amanda’s heartbroken plea can be heard on the video as she holds her son Emery right after giving birth. “Look at him. Please save him!”

She said Emery lived for 45 minutes outside the womb, and Elliot lived for more than two hours. Contrary to what she had been told a few days earlier, she said the medical staff refused to assess the boys or provide medical assistance to them.

“The boys’ mother, Amanda, had been told they would be stillborn or breathe only for a moment, but both were born alive,” Created Equal said in a statement. “One breathed and cried for two and a half hours while Amanda pleaded for help and Riverside staff stood by.”

Amanda said she went to the hospital on June 21, 2017 after she began to bleed. The news that she received from doctors was not good. If she gave birth before 22 weeks and five days, they would not attempt to resuscitate the twins; but if she made it to that mark, they would assess the twins and possibly provide medical assistance, she said.

According to the pro-life organization, Amanda made it to the 22 week and five day mark on June 24, 2017, the day her twins were born. However, they allege the hospital staffers did not fulfill their promise and instead let the babies die.

“Emery survived for 45 minutes after his birth,” according to the pro-life group. “A neonatal doctor put Emery under a heat lamp, but there was neither assessment of nor assistance given to him. Elliot, born second, was much larger. He survived for over two hours while assessment and assistance were denied in spite of Amanda’s cries for help.”

Amanda said Elliot was crying when he was born. Video footage from the hospital shows Elliot’s tiny hands move as his mother holds him against her chest.

The hospital classified both babies as stillborn in papers they sent home with Amanda.

See evidence Emery and Elliot were born at 22 weeks, 5 days: https://bit.ly/2KKhbRS

See stillbirth discharge papers Amanda was given: https://bit.ly/2IV1BFZ

Read Amanda’s statement of the incident: https://bit.ly/2J1Y2h9

Created Equal said it helped Amanda submit a private, internal complaint to the hospital, but the hospital “rebuffed” their efforts.

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“The Ethics and Compliance Department has investigated and addressed the concern brought by the caller. … We consider this matter closed,” the hospital said in a statement.

The pro-life organization decided to release the story publicly to call on the hospital to re-open its investigation.

“… to date, there has been neither recognition from the hospital about this tragedy nor condolence communicated to the grieving family,” according to Created Equal.

Whether the boys would have survived with treatment is impossible to predict, but new research indicates that premature babies born at 22 weeks of pregnancy are surviving at greater rates than ever before.

In 2017, the journal Pediatrics highlighted a baby girl in the United States who survived after being born 21 weeks and four days after conception. The girl, who now is 3, is believed to be the youngest premature baby to survive.

Last fall, a Chicago hospital saved a very premature infant who was born weighing 13 ounces. Eirianna spent four months at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago before growing well enough to go home in February of this year.

British toddler Kalel Fitz is another example. He was born after just 23 weeks in his mother’s womb, and doctors gave him a small chance of survival, but he now is a thriving toddler, according to The Daily Mail.

Research published in 2015 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 23 percent of premature infants are surviving birth as early as 22 weeks. However, the study also found that some hospitals are not giving babies treatment at this early age, despite the new medical advancements.

A 2017 Duke University study also found that babies born at 23 weeks are surviving outside the womb at a greater rate than ever before. Researchers examined 4,500 babies between 2000 and 2011 and found a “small but significant drop in fatalities for babies born between 23 and 37 weeks gestation,” as well as a decrease in premature babies manifesting neurophysiological problems, the Daily Mail reported.

[Morgana]

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[jonrick46]

The hospital staff is thinking about their paychecks. If the hospital loses money on special care for these cases, there is less money for them. Is this a Methodist hospital? The Methodists should be calling for the hospital to change their name.

[Gene Eric]

Manslaughter.

Was there no father present to give the staff an ultimatum?

[Does so]

The hospital staff is thinking about their paychecks. If the hospital loses money on special care for these cases, there is less money for them.

A Civil lawsuit may cost the hospital the same amount of money.

[skr]

Murder, since they apparently had made no post-natal plans to do anything for the babies.

[huldah1776]

Since this makes me angry how can anyone not think that God is also angry at the revulsion of His greatest blessing? This is why nations are being invaded.

[GranTorino]

I was a Methodist, untill they started pandering to fags and anti-gun nuts.

[Ancesthntr]

“Created Equal said it helped Amanda submit a private, internal complaint to the hospital, but the hospital “rebuffed” their efforts.”

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Sue the hospital and everyone involved, and get a prosecutors involved for a 2nd degree murder charge, and they’ll pay attention.

[texas booster]

My little sister was born at ~25 weeks, and survived.

In 1963.

At Clark AFB. Lets just say that their NCU was good but not world class at the time.

And a “Methodist” hospital in the middle of a full blown university research city can't help?

The executives deserve what happens next.

[tflabo]

The new Method ist to post abort preemies with their medical stamp (out) approval. Shamefully despicable.

[EC Washington]

Not sure why this family ended up at Riverside Hospital. Serious Medical cases in Columbus, are treated at The Ohio State Medical center which is very close to Riverside.

[kanawa]

I avoid posting politically controversial subjects on my personal FB page, I have a community page where I post them instead.

There is one subject though, which I do not compromise on and that is the protection of the most innocent and vulnerable humans.

I will post this and other articles like it on my personal FB page and if ‘friends’ of my page don’t like it, tough.

[Wolfie]

Maybe it was an insurance thing.

[Wuli]

Isn’t a doctors unofficial oath of primary duty “to do no harm”, not “to save money” (expense of sustaining and saving an infant born prematurely). Is not EVERY life precious?

[BykrBayb]

Hospital workers stand by and watch babies die, as mother pleads for help.

Read Amanda’s statement of the incident: https://bit.ly/2J1Y2h9

On June 24, 2017, I was admitted to Riverside Methodist Hospital Labor & Delivery after experiencing bleeding. I was 22 weeks and 2 days pregnant with twins. Hospital staff informed me that if the babies were delivered before 22 weeks and 5 days, there would be no attempt to resuscitate them. However, they said that if they did make it to 22 weeks and 5 days, they would assess and consider intervention.

Three days later, on June 27th, I entered hard labor. My mother, who was present, asked hospital staff when the doctor and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) representatives would arrive. Though I was 22 weeks and 5 days in my pregnancy, we were told the babies were coming too early, that NICU would not be present for the birth, and that no effort would be made to help the twins.

I pleaded with nurses and other hospital staff to help try to save my babies. I was told they would not survive. I asked if they would at minimum assess the babies after they were born to determine possibility of survival. I was informed NICU would not assess the twins and that the babies would probably be stillborn or at best breathe for a moment.

Emery was born first. No medical team member was present. He landed on the edge of the bed. My mother demanded assistance from the nurse’s station. A neonatal doctor did come in, but just wrapped Emery in a blanket, put him under a heat lamp, and opened his mouth.

Emery did not merely “breathe for a moment.” He survived for about 45 minutes before passing away without any assistance from hospital staff.

A couple of hours later, I began to contract again. This time, a doctor delivered Elliot, cut the cord, and laid him on my chest.

Elliot was bigger than Emery. Not only was he breathing, like Emery, but he was also crying. But no one assessed his needs. He lived for two and a half hours while they did nothing.

Though I repeatedly asked staff to help or assess my babies, I was told they were born too young. But there is no documentation to prove they were born too young.

In fact, I had been told previously they would not help if the babies were born before 22 weeks and 5 days. Documentation shows I was admitted at 22 weeks 2 days and the babies born at 22 weeks 5 days. Nevertheless, when I begged for help, they refused.

I was discharged with instructions for care after stillbirth. But Emery and Elliot were not stillborn. They were born alive and died as Riverside Methodist Hospital staff denied my pleas for help.

- Amanda [last name redacted]

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[Dante3]

This is horrific. It’s beyond horrific. At the moment I cannot find the words to express my feelings.

[trisham]

Maternity Care
Riverside Methodist Hospital has one of Ohio’s largest maternity programs, which is recognized by the Ohio Department of Health as a Level III Maternity Center. Board-certified obstetricians and neonatologists in this department specialize in the care of patients with high-risk pregnancies, and their babies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Methodist_Hospital

https://www.ohiohealth.com/locations/hospitals/riverside-methodist-hospital

I can’t understand how this happened.

[SaraJohnson]

We’re not in Kansas anymore.