Posted on 02/13/2010 10:35:29 AM PST by Krankor
The day after her son was born, Jennifer Spiegel was awakened about 4 a.m. in her Evanston Hospital room and told by a staffer, "Your baby wants you."
A patient-care technician then wheeled a newborn in and handed him to Spiegel, who breast-fed him.
But it wasn't her son, according to a lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court.
A surprised nurse walked in while Spiegel was breast-feeding the boy and realized the mix-up, the Spiegels told the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Milk happens....
This is worth a lawsuit? It was a mixup, not a life changing event. Feeling uncomfortable is not grounds for a big cash settlement.
I hope a kind judge commiserates with them, then tells them, nicely of course, that they're wasting the court's time, and they should go home and raise that little boy.
Of course it's not when you think one serving of breast milk is worth $30,000.
I’d cut your offer in half!
And then hit them with court costs and attorney fees...
Ditto
What's the value of a draught of breast milk? No more than an expensive cuppa coffee.
Give her $1.50 and let her go buy a latte.
And then assign them court costs...
You don't spend a lot of time in the company of lawyers, I take it?
They probably had to change their number to get the lawyers to stop calling when word of this minor incident got out.
There was a great Dick VanDyke episode where Dick became convinced the baby (Richie) they had at their home was the wrong one.
This is a frivolous lawsuit. The family should be fined for filing it. No harm was done.
Probably not, but remember, breast milk is a vector for transmission of such diseases as HIV-AIDS. When babies are born to such mothers, special medication is required to prevent the mother-to-baby transmission. It’s all fine and dandy in this case, but when a serious injury happens, who will be accountable?
Now if a hospital doesn’t have a fool-proof method of matching mothers with their babies, they deserve to be sued. It would be better for such an establishment to be inoculated from committing future blunders with this benign case, than to dust it under the carpet until a serious accident forces them to do the same.
I’ve always hated the idea of separating new-born babies from their mothers, in hospitals. I fail to understand the utility of this practice.
Didn’t the mother check to see if it was her child? /sarc
If the mother was a HIV patient, the consequences could potentially be severe.
Breast milk is a vector for this disease, and many others.
Tort reform... NOW.
That is what I was thinking. The baby is at risk of picking something up in her breast milk
I think the mother of the baby has a better chance of a lawsuit.
I see a third-party complaint on the horizon . . . .
That's completely farfetched, and has neither been alleged nor proven.
You posted while I was posting. The mom of the other baby ought to sue! < /s >
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