A lot of young girls end up needing a C section. I wonder if any pregnant women ever got transfered to the hospital. The baby and mom would be matched if so.
My guess is that the cult leaders would let an adolescent girl and/or her full term baby die in childbirth before they’d take her to a hospital, if they weren’t confident she could pass for being over 16. There is reportedly a doctor and clinic within the compound, and it may be that C-sections can be performed there, though probably not very safely. But I don’t know that hospitals would retain any blood samples or other identifying material from the mother (i.e. I think they still take babies’ footprints routinely, but presumably they don’t fingerprint mothers). So while hospital records could probably identify babies that were born there and have the correct birth date, I’m not at all sure they could match a mother to the baby.
I doubt any of them got near a hospital for labor/delivery. They have a small ‘medical center’ on the compound, they probably deliver there or with midwife/sister wife help at home. I read just this weekend that they are expected to labor and deliver in silence, since making noise (cries, grunts, moans) would make them ‘unworthy’. I can’t imagine! The same article also mentioned kitchen scissor episiotomies and repair jobs with dental floss. (Article was by Flora Jessop.) There are no birth certificates registered or issued, no prints taken, maternal or infant. That’s part of the ID problem now, the state has no record of any of these kids because there aren’t any records, from birth on. And most likely the mothers have no birth certificates themselves either. Then you factor in that some of the kids were removed from their families in Colorado Creek and placed in Texas with other people and some of the people are believed to be from another compound in Canada...it would take the wisdom of Solomon himself to figure out the best way to do all this.
I wonder how many kids are going to come up unrelated to any of the adults there...?