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.
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.
The end result was that we mostly had roommates, so the babies had to go to the nursery. It was fun. My roomie was finishing up her doctorate in Old Testament Theology at Emory U., so we had airy discussions about the Ancient Queens of Judah (her dissertation topic) in the intervals of feeding babies. She was shocked at my OB, who was a bullet-headed red-haired Irishman who cussed a blue streak -- he was a force of nature and you could hear him coming all the way down the hall. I loved him. God rest his soul, he was an original.
Then the mother of the baby should be suing, not the mother who breastfed the wrong baby.
Attorney?