Posted on 11/16/2025 11:22:06 PM PST by Morgana
A Texas mother’s viral TikTok is sparking outrage after she shared footage of her daughter, Karrie Jones, in visible agony while waiting to be admitted for labor at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas.
The video, posted by Jones’ mother Kash (@kashman2814), has now been viewed more than 23 million times.
In the clip, Jones is seen doubled over in a wheelchair as a nurse asks admission questions. Her mother wrote in the text overlay that the staff kept her daughter in the waiting area for “more than 30 mins,” and that Jones’ son was born just “12 min later.” “The delivery was AWFUL,” the overlay continued, while the caption accused a “deathly charge nurse” of choosing “paperwork over life.”
At one point in the video, Jones screamed that the baby is “in her a--,” prompting her mother to ask the nurse, “Ya’ll treat all your patients like this or just the Black ones?”
The footage showed Jones coming out of the wheelchair and attempting to turn herself over as she appeared to be actively giving birth. In another clip, Kash recorded from inside her purse and captured her daughter pushing and crying out in pain.
Her mother asked, “Are y’all for real right now? Does she have to give birth in a chair?” The nurse responded that she “can’t take her upstairs,” leading Jones’ mom to question why staff would “take a chance of infections and her having a baby in this chair.”
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“If she didn’t want the hospital interfering with her why didn’t she just deliver the baby at home...”
She is probably asking herself the same question. But no doubt she was told by her doctor (if she had one) she had to be in a hospital to have the baby.
I knew a woman who gave birth in the car as her husband was rushing her to the hospital. I might have ended up doing the same with my second baby - if I hadn't gone to the hospital against the doctor's advice. The doc told me to wait longer at home, even though the baby was overdue. She said I sounded too calm to be ready. I hung up and went to the hospital, anyway. The nurses took one look and started yelling for the doctor, who came in and said she couldn't understand why I was so calm.
The people here who are blaming the pregnant woman don't seem to know: The doctors don't want women showing up early. Some of them get angry if you show up before they think you're ready.
The nurse might be a cold and viscous jerk or not I don’t know. Why was the mother showing up just before delivery
Labor can and does sometimes progress very quickly. The mother might not have realized how far into labor she was.
The hospital is not a field hospital. It’s not primitive. They have to have admission information they need to know medical history, insurance info, next of kin.
That is nonsense. No doubt the hospital could have waited to get that information or gotten it from the grandmother.
She’s with her mother?
What is so strange about that?
Where’s the husband? Does she want the hospital to do his job. She suing?
What job would it be the hospital is doing in lieu of the husband’s?
WHy the racist reply?
Because there’s a grain of truth in it, that we deny at our own peril.
“ She is probably asking herself the same question. But no doubt she was told by her doctor (if she had one) she had to be in a hospital to have the baby.”
If she had a doctor he would have given her directions to the L&D suite. He would have had a wrist ID printed out and ready to go. Her mother would have been with her once at least to do a run through
She was incoherent and her mother was busy filming
If she had a doctor he would have told her to cooperate with health care team.
What’s she doing showing up with a baby coming out to a hospital who doesn’t know her
Make up your bloody mind. Either home births are way too dangerous for any woman or women have a lot of nerve just showing up at the hospital when they are about to give birth.
Why would anyone worry about a bill they have no intention of paying, even if a judgment was levied.
Even so there would still be the ambulance bill and since I doubt mother and newborn would just be dropped off at the nearest bus stop, there would still be a hospital bill for the post natal and pediatric care.
Illegals get better care than us.
These days the ER is likely not to be under the same ownership and management as the hospital it is attached to. They are bought up by investment groups which usually do not have patient outcome as their top priority.
Malarky.
My home birth comment was sarcastic. Of course she should go to the hospital
No one ought to have a baby at home. One always needs a NICU down the hall or at least an ambulance downstairs in the ER Bay
Why is she filming them and being argumentative then publishing it instead of cooperating with them?
She might have been getting pre-natal care at a clinic where she was seen by a doctor at her initial screening with follow ups done by a nurse or other qualified provider. Her actual labor and delivery doctor would likely have been whomever was on call when she arrived. If there was only one hospital where they had privileges within a certain distance it seems directions to that hospital were hardly needed.
She might not have had prenatal care. As hard as it may be to believe even pregnant women can have trouble finding a doctor. Either because they just are not taking any new patients or they don’t take Medicaid or even certain private insurances.
I don’t know why you are not willing to admit the hospital (or at least the nurse and admitting office) screwed up when they (no matter the mother’s circumsatance) should have had the safe delivery of the baby as their only priority.
I have never had a doctor print up a ready to go wrist band.
I missed the sarcasm. You are wrong, not everybody needs to give birth in a hospital, though home births should be attended by a nurse midwife who is part of a team which is connected with a hospital in case of an emergency.
As for the filming, maybe she thought she was at the airport. I honestly don’t get why for many the first response is to film it instead of actually you know doing something to help the situation.
“I have never had a doctor print up a ready to go wrist band.”
Prenatal care always involves pre admission. That L&D unit has every expectant mother from clinics
Of course she had trouble finding a doctor. She’s blaming the admissions nurse for that. On film.
Nurses, med techs, admissions clerks, all can be awful just like everyone else in life
Patients can come in with a film crew and turn it into a Maury povich drama. A tik tok disaster. Yellowstone with real blood
But the baby needs planning. The baby needs the mom, the grandmother. The absent father, to be prepared for delivery. The admissions nurse cannot be depended on. As we can see. It takes more. We can hate her but that doesn’t help the innocent baby
O-tay, Mr. Biden.
(you earlier: “So you would take away my vote because I have no Y chromosome.”)
I’M SO SORRY I MISGENDERED YOU!
I should have said “O-Tay, Mrs. Biden”.
By the way, your reply “Malarkey” is logically quite formidable! I am in awe of your rhetorical skills. (Not.)
Say, I thought you XX’s were up there on the verbal acuity scale...??? Oh, but I guess that was just stereotyping by some (probably male) researcher.
😊🤗Thanks!!
When I had my sons, there was no such thing as separate labor rooms. I was in a large room both times with multiple beds, separated by curtains. I can still remember lying in the bed, with my legs wide apart, pushing down with each contraction, and the curtain at the end of the bed, being open, and people walking back and forth through the room. No sense trying to protect your privacy in those days.
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